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Neasa Boyle; Kevin Marshall; Katriona O'Sullivan – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
Women are under-represented in science fields; this poses a significant challenge considering the emerging digital revolution. The intersectionality theory suggests that women whose social identities intersect across gender and class have distinct experiences; affecting their science aspirations. This research examined gender and class…
Descriptors: Barriers, Gender Differences, Social Differences, Social Class
Kim, Meereem; Kim, Hyesook – Computers in the Schools, 2023
This study aims to identify the profiles regarding students' familiarity with information and communication technology (ICT) and their relationships to reading literacy and background variables for high-performing countries in PISA 2018. We distinguished four classes in each of the six countries (Estonia, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, Poland,…
Descriptors: Profiles, Use Studies, High Achievement, Foreign Countries
Bradley Hayes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation in practice explores the intersection of computer science education, specifically computational thinking and programming, with mathematics achievement among 15- year-old students in selected English-speaking countries. The research addresses a gap in understanding whether skills developed through computer science can positively…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Science Education, Mathematics Achievement, Secondary School Students
McCoy, Selina; Smyth, Emer – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
This article explores social class and gender differences in entry to the two main higher education sectors, universities and institutes of technology, among school leavers in Ireland over the period 1980-2006. A rational choice perspective is adopted, with participation hypothesised to reflect the costs and benefits attaching to attending the two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Social Differences, Gender Differences
Smyth, Emer – Oxford Review of Education, 2018
Young people in Irish schools are required to choose whether to sit secondary exam subjects at higher or ordinary level. This paper draws on a mixed methods longitudinal study of students in 12 case-study schools to trace the factors influencing take-up of higher level subjects within lower secondary education. School organisation and process are…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Mixed Methods Research, Middle Class, Working Class