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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2014.18.12.3013

A Study on Gender Difference Analysis for Gifted Children in IT  

Jun, Woochun (Department of Computer Education, Seoul National University of Education)
Hong, Suk-Ki (Department of Business Administration, Dankook University)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.18, no.12, 2014 , pp. 3013-3019 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the knowledge-based society, a nation's national power depends on IT industry. Also, literacy and application of IT technology can make a person live in comfortable circumstances. Currently, a few outstanding people lead entire IT industry and academy. In this sense, it is necessary to identify and nurture the gifted children in IT as early as we can. The purpose of this paper is to investigate gender difference of the gifted students in IT. Especially we are interested in their grade difference so that we select programming ability and logical thinking ability as academic performance evaluation. For this purpose, the gifted children in gifted science education center attached to a university at Seoul Metropolitan Area are selected. Their grades for 8 years were collected and analyzed. The analysis results show that there is no significant difference between male students and female students for programming ability and logical thinking ability. This also means that there is no academic difference between male and female students for the gifted children in IT.
Keywords
Gifted Children in IT; Gender Difference; Programming Ability; Logical Thinking Ability;
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