ICT and gender
Fostering girls’ computer literacy through laptop learning: can mobile computers help to level out the gender difference?
Gender differences in computer literacy and laptop programs
Authors:
H. Schaumburg
Publisher:
Notesys, 2001
This study looks at whether the difference between boys and girls in computer literacy can be leveled out in a laptop program where each student has his/her own mobile computer to work with at home and at school. 1
13 students from laptop and non-laptop classes were tested for their computer knowledge and computer confidence. Students from laptop classes outperformed students from non-laptop classes in computer knowledge while there was no difference in computer confidence. In comparison to the non-laptop classes, the gender gap in computer knowledge was much smaller in the laptop classes. In computer confidence, no harmonizing effect of the laptops was found.
