Gender Issues in Technology Education: A Quasi-Ethnographic Interview Approach

Haynie, William J.

doi:10.21061/jte.v15i1.a.2

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“…The Participants of this research, described several specific professional development activities that contributed to their understanding of content standards. These findings did not support conclusions from cognitive style studies which hold that female teachers are field-dependent and technophobia; while male teachers being field-independent, prefer application of media to instruction (Parker & Leonie, 2002;Haynie, 2003;Weber & Custer, 2005).…”

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Perceptions on Multimedia technology by College of Education Teachers

Muthu

Kumari

2012

EduLearn

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Multimedia means, combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video and interactivity content forms delivered electronically. E-learning is a process and e-content is a product. The objectives of the study are to find out the significant relationship between the college of education teachers' perception towards multimedia technology on the basis of gender wise, locality wise, marital wise, subject wise, technical skill wise, experience wise and possessing degree wise. Evaluation of Multimedia Perception scale (EMPS) developed by the investigator with a reliability of 0.89 and it collected 350 teachers from Tamil Nadu State of Indian Context. From the analysis, there are no significant differences between the perceptions of multimedia technology in terms of gender, locality and marital status. The same perception was rejected on the basis of subject, technical skills, higher degree level and their experiences. The quality of learning depends not only on the form of how the process is carried out but also on what content is taught and how the content is presented.

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Perceptions on Multimedia technology by College of Education Teachers

Muthu

Kumari

2012

EduLearn

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“…Since the 1980s, a curriculum known as Technology Education has evolved from the earlier industrial arts. Industrial arts has failed to attract many female students, but there are also some social indicators that make technology curriculum more attractive to females (Haynie, 2003). However, when it comes to learning advanced programs and how certain parts of a computer function, males learn faster.…”

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Challenges Of Teaching Computer Science In Transition Countries: Albanian University Case

Sotirofski¹,

Kukeli²,

Kalemi³

2010

TLC

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The main objective of our study is to determine the challenges faced during the process of teaching Computer Science in a university of a country in transition and make suggestions to improve this teaching process by perfecting the necessary conditions. Our survey builds on the thesis that we live in an information age; information technology is an irresistible factor in our era and should be involved in the curriculum of all levels of education. A brief summary of related literature review and some empirical results are provided. Data collected from a survey of freshmen students has been analyzed using simple regression technique. Among all traditional factors that determine performance on computer applications, the authors find that gender, prior knowledge, peer pressure, market conditions, and the quality of delivering the course are statistically important.

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“…This corresponds with the findings of Olawepo in 1984. 12 Olawepo reported that gender as a variable did not affect a teacher's perception of social studies orientation.…”

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“…On the contrary, male teachers being fieldindependent preferred application of media to instruction. 12,13,15 Teaching experience of the individual shows no significant association with the Modified Perception Evaluation Scale (MPES). Most teachers were indifferent for the utilization of this because they could not imagine how media could be used without threatening the traditional role, or at best the influence and position of classroom teachers.…”

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