Document Type
Journal Article
Department/Unit
Department of Computer Science
Title
Evaluating ICT literacy differences in arts and science students
Language
English
Abstract
There has been increasing responsibility placed upon the tertiary education institutes to equip their students with ICT skills. The main purpose of this study is to understand and explain the performance difference of Arts and Science undergraduate students in the study of an ICT course. The results obtained show no significant differences between the two groups of students on the overall score of the ICT topics. However, Arts students scored significant higher for the topic "IT Challenges" while Science students scored higher for the topic "Connecting to the Internet". Our conjecture, as supported by some related work in the literature, is that it is the learning style of students of different disciplines being a key factor causing the score differences.
Keywords
Ict literacy, Learning styles
Publication Date
11-2012
Source Publication Title
Journal of Next Generation Information Technology
Volume
3
Issue
1
Start Page
1
End Page
6
Publisher
Advanced Institute of Convergence Information Technology
DOI
10.4156/jnit.vol3.issue1.1
Link to Publisher's Edition
http://www.globalcis.org/dl/citation.html?id=JNIT-79&Search=Evaluating%20ICT%20literacy%20differences%20in%20arts%20and%20science%20students&op=Title
ISSN (print)
20928637
ISSN (electronic)
22339388
APA Citation
Wong, K., & Cheung, W. (2012). Evaluating ICT literacy differences in arts and science students. Journal of Next Generation Information Technology, 3 (1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.4156/jnit.vol3.issue1.1