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Factors Relating To The Acquisition Of Computer Literacy And Computer Science Skills In California High Schools, Sarah Budinger Peterson
Factors Relating To The Acquisition Of Computer Literacy And Computer Science Skills In California High Schools, Sarah Budinger Peterson
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to identify factors that related to the acquisition of computer skills in California high schools. Procedures. The first part of the study was examination of data from a sample of 63 California schools: scores from computer skills tests, achievement tests, and other pertinent information. The second part was an in-depth study of four schools taken from the sample of 63 schools with high or low scores on computer skills tests. Case study methodology was used with the sample of the two high scoring and two low scoring schools to examine other factors that …