5.+Anticipation+Chart+Revisited

=ANTICIPATION CHART REVISITED=

Here are the results of our survey with research information and comments attached for your interest.
1. **The majority of US online users are male. (False)** True 5 False 7 Maybe 0 Research: In August 2002, the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration reported the majority of the online population was female (Gorski, 2002, p.23). //Remember that this does not mean that the gender digital divide has disappeared, it just means that more females in the US are online.//

True 4 False 7 Maybe 1 Research: “Females from the elementary school grades to university graduates express greater anxiety and negative attitudes [towards computers] than males” (Cooper, 2006, P. 321).
 * 2. Female users of all ages view computers as a source of anxiety. (True)**

True 6 False 3 Maybe 3 Research: The preponderance of software developed for education contains at least some of the formal features that bring joy to the hearts of boys but anxiety to the hearts of women and girls” (Cooper, 2006, p. 325) Software manufacturers need to concentrate their efforts on producing education software that is either gender neutral or providing software that appeals to girls as much as the current software appeals to boys” (Cooper, 2006, p. 331).
 * 3. The majority of educational instructional software is based directly upon video game design features that appeal to males. (True)**

True 4 False 6 Maybe 2 Research: “…The social context of computing had a substantial effect on the experience of computer anxiety…for the girls, having boys present has the effect of increasing computer anxiety and decreasing learning” (Cooper, 2006, p. 324).
 * 4. Gender composition of computer learning groups does not affect performance. (False)**

True 3 False 5 Maybe 4 Research: Cooper (2006) “assume[s] no innate differences between boys and girls in their ability to use the computer or to learn from computerized instruction.” (p. 331) "There can be little question that there exists a stereotype that links the use of computers to gender…There is good reason to believe that gender-based stereotypes can have the power of the self-fulfilling prophecy, creating further evidence for the stereotype…people can unwittingly produce behaviour in others that is consistent with the beliefs they hold about them.” (Cooper, 2006, p. 328). A student who believes she is not going to do well may alter her own behaviour to conform to her expectation” (Cooper, 2006, p. 329).
 * 5. There are innate differences between boys and girls in their ability to use the computer. (No findings available)**

//The best we can do is like Cooper has done, assume no difference in ability, and concentrate on the differences between girls and boys for improving teaching practices in order to eliminate the gender divide.//

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