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ICT Interventions for girls : factors influencing ICT career intentions

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posted on 2014-01-01, 00:00 authored by E Gorbacheva, Annemieke Craig, Jenine Beekhuyzen, Jo Coldwell-NeilsonJo Coldwell-Neilson
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 = 3577), 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.

History

Journal

Australasian journal of information systems

Volume

18

Issue

3

Pagination

289 - 302

Publisher

Australasian Association for Information Systems

Location

Canberra, A.C.T.

ISSN

1449-8618

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal article

Copyright notice

2014, Australasian Association for Information Systems