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Gender Differences In Computer Literacy Level Among Undergraduate Students In Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
Author(s) -
Zin Nor Azan Mat,
Zaman Halimah Badioze,
Judi Hairulliza Mohd,
Mukti Norhayati Abdul,
Amin Hazilah Mohd,
Sahran Shahnorbanun,
Ahmad Kamsuriah,
Ayob Masri,
Abdullah Salwani,
Abdullah Zuraidah
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
the electronic journal of information systems in developing countries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.41
H-Index - 18
ISSN - 1681-4835
DOI - 10.1002/j.1681-4835.2000.tb00003.x
Subject(s) - computer literacy , affect (linguistics) , literacy , control (management) , mathematics education , medical education , psychology , computer science , pedagogy , medicine , communication , artificial intelligence
This study was conducted to assess gender differences in computer literacy levels of undergraduate students in UKM. Responses from 2,591 students were analyzed. Students were surveyed on software and application use, self‐perceived control and programming skills. There is a significant difference in computer literacy level between male and female students; overall mean score for male was 2.62 (N = 734, SD = 0.71) while female score was 2.34 (N = 1570, SD = 0.58). Male students had greater computer experience and use computer more frequently. They also reported a higher computer ability and slightly higher percentage of them own a computer. Males had greater self‐perceived control and higher programming skills and better ability in computer repair and maintenance than females. Other factors such as computer experience, and computer ownership also affect computer literacy level as was shown by the interaction effect existed among gender, computer experience, and computer ownership. Implication from this study indicates that increasing the computer experience and encouraging students to own a computer will give more opportunity to female students to achieve a higher level of computer literacy.