Relations Among Ethnicity, Gender, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Intention to Pursue a Career in Information Technology

Johnson, Roger T.; Stone, Dianna L.; Phillips, T. Nichole

doi:10.1111/j.1559-1816.2008.00336.x

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“…It has also been identified in numerous studies as being the predominant factor in career choice and in performance, both during the education phase and subsequently in a career (Akbulut & Looney, 2007Johnson, Stone, & Phillips, 2008;Lent et al, 2002;Looney & Akbulut, 2007;Smith, 2002). It is important to note that, although self-efficacy is built on past performance to some extent, students often either over-estimate their own capabilities (Galpin, Sanders, Turner, & Venter, 2003;Hilberg & Meiselwitz, 2008;Lent et al, 1994;Looney & Akbulut, 2007;Smith, 2002) or, particularly in the case of women, under-estimate them (Beyer, 2008;Zhang, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Factors Affecting Career Choice: Comparison Between Students from Computer and Other Disciplines

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The number of student enrolments in computer-related courses remains a serious concern worldwide with far reaching consequences. This paper reports on an extensive survey about career choice and associated motivational factors amongst new students, only some of whom intend to major in computer-related courses, at two South African universities. The data were analyzed using some components of Social Cognitive Career Theory, namely external influences, self-efficacy beliefs and outcome expectations. The research suggests the need for new strategies for marketing computerrelated courses and the avenues through which they are marketed. This can to some extent be achieved by studying strategies used by other (non-computer) university courses, and their professional bodies.However, there are also distinct differences, related to self-efficacy and career outcomes, between the computer majors and the "other" group and these need to be explored further in order to find strategies that work well for this group. It is not entirely clear what the underlying reasons are for these differences but it is noteworthy that the perceived importance of "Interest in the career field" when choosing a career remains very high for both groups of students.

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“…Students who have little or no personal experience of ICT may have unrealistically high expectations of it as a possible career and of their own ability to cope with the courses (Galpin et al, 2003;Johnson et al, 2008;Seymour et al, 2005).…”

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Factors Affecting Career Choice: Comparison Between Students from Computer and Other Disciplines

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“…174Bandura, Barbaranelli, Caprara, and Pastorelli (2001) argue that the career choices and expectations of adolescents relate strongly to self-effi cacy. Johnson, Stone and Phillips (2008) indicate a link between what they defi ne as IT self-effi cacy (a person's beliefs in his/her capacity to pursue a successful career in IT) and the intention to follow a career in IT. IT self-effi cacy should be distinguished from computer self-effi cacy (confi dence in using IT).…”

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“…These enrolment-related crises have spawned a signifi cant body of research related to selection of careers in information technology (IT) (these include Agosto, Gasson & Atwood, 2008;Alexander et al, 2011;Johnson, Stone & Phillips, 2008;Trauth, Quesenberry & Huang, 2009). 166Internet connectivity as an available technology has also been shown to be a structural factor on career decisions in other studies (Bright, Pryor, Wilkenfeld & Earl, 2005).…”

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Internet access as a structural factor in career choice: a comparison between computing and non-computing major students

Lotriet¹,

Matthee²,

Alexander³

2011

African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technol

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Internet access as a structural factor in career choice: a comparison between computing and non-computing major students 138Internet access as a structural factor in career choice: a comparison between computing and non-computing major students career choice model of Adya and Kaiser posits the availability of technology resources as a structural element impacting on career choice. The model distinguishes between accessibility at school and at home. Based on this theoretical point of departure and by arguing a link between choice of major and choice of fi eld of career, this paper explores specifi cally the infl uence of the access of internet at school and at home on perceptions and values pertaining to the career South African students are preparing for. This exploratory study investigates whether any differences can be found between students who selected computing majors at tertiary level and students who selected non-computing majors. Internet availability in South Africa is potentially interesting, as it constitutes not simply an 'available technology', but may be an indicator of aspects such as technology skills, information resources, educational quality and socio-economic conditions. 161A quantitative study was conducted with 1741 students as participants from three different departments in the School of IT at a university in South Africa. Students participated in a survey early in the academic year. 162The fi ndings show that lack of internet access homogenises students' career perceptions across the groups of majors. However, where students have internet access the views on career choices differ considerably between computing-majors and non-computing majors particularly in terms of views on the nature of work opportunities and of personal qualities of IT people. Also, a pronounced difference emerges in the perceptions of non-computing majors with and without internet access centering around views about the importance of sources of career information and around self-effi cacy in the chosen career. Most importantly, the computing majors group is fairly homogeneous in terms of their perceptions regarding computer-related careers regardless of internet access. 163Since similarities shared by these students evidently cannot be ascribed to internet access or even to the socio-economic and educational factors that make internet access possible, this research indicates that the infl uence of the internet on perceptions of career and consequently on career choice is complex with more diverse linkages to psychosocial factors than posited by the model of Adya and Kaiser.

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“…It was reported that interventions have a positive effect in a way that participating girls were more positive about careers in computing and were more likely to consider enrolling in university CS courses (Anderson et al 2008). Outside of Australia, a comparison study of African Americans and Anglo Americans examining ICT career intentions revealed that ICT selfefficacy and occupational stereotypes were related to attitudes toward ICT jobs, and that these attitudes were positively related to career intentions (Johnson et al 2008). From a psychological perspective, BarNir et al (2011) found that role models have a significant and positive impact on career intentions, and that gender moderated the effects and self-efficacy mediated them.…”

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ICT Interventions for Girls: Factors Influencing ICT Career Intentions

Gorbachevа

Craig

Beekhuyzen

et al. 2014

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Intervention programs aimed at promoting study and work opportunities in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) field to schoolgirls have been encouraged to combat a decline in the interest among girls to study ICT at school. The goal of our study is to investigate the influence of such interventions on schoolgirls' intentions to choose a career in the ICT field by analysing comprehensive survey data (n = 3711), collected during four interventions in Australia, using the Partial Least Squares method. Our study is also aimed at identifying other factors influencing ICT career intentions. We found that the attitude towards interventions has an indirect influence on ICT career intentions by affecting interest in ICT. Our results also challenge several existing theoretical studies by showing that factors that had previously been suggested as influencers were found to have little or no impact in this study, these being same-sex education and computer usage.

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Relations Among Ethnicity, Gender, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Intention to Pursue a Career in Information Technology

Cited by 37 publications

References 49 publications

Factors Affecting Career Choice: Comparison Between Students from Computer and Other Disciplines

Factors Affecting Career Choice: Comparison Between Students from Computer and Other Disciplines

Internet access as a structural factor in career choice: a comparison between computing and non-computing major students

ICT Interventions for Girls: Factors Influencing ICT Career Intentions

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