The impact of gender and pedagogical factors on female pass rates

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 305-320

  Lang, Catherine ^a   Meyer, Denny ^a   Niner, Sarah ^b   McKay, Judy ^a   Lewis, Sue ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gender diversity; IS pedagogy; Role models; Student achievement

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION COMPUTING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE TESTING;

CORRELATION AND REGRESSION ANALYSIS; FEMALE STUDENTS; FORMAL EDUCATION; GENDER DIVERSITY; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; PASS RATE; ROLE MODEL; STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT;

STUDENTS;

EID: 73149116407     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.02528     Document Type: Article

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