TY - GEN
T1 - Contribution of personal factors for a better understanding of the gender effects of freshmen in mechanical engineering
AU - Gramß, Denise
AU - Vogel-Heuser, Birgit
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/6/16
Y1 - 2015/6/16
N2 - The performance in software engineering tasks like modeling are influenced by different factors. In addition to knowledge and cognitive abilities, further characteristics impact performances. Those personal factors are different for males and females and contribute to gender differences in software engineering. Knowledge about correlates of gender specific performance provides information for the development of educational methods to increase females' persistence and performance in software engineering. The recent study is focused on gender aspects in personal factors and their relationship to freshmen performance in modeling tasks. Results indicated several factors (e.g. cognitive abilities, self-efficacy) for gender differences. Relationship of personal factors to modeling performance revealed. Especially, females' interest in the task influences performance.
AB - The performance in software engineering tasks like modeling are influenced by different factors. In addition to knowledge and cognitive abilities, further characteristics impact performances. Those personal factors are different for males and females and contribute to gender differences in software engineering. Knowledge about correlates of gender specific performance provides information for the development of educational methods to increase females' persistence and performance in software engineering. The recent study is focused on gender aspects in personal factors and their relationship to freshmen performance in modeling tasks. Results indicated several factors (e.g. cognitive abilities, self-efficacy) for gender differences. Relationship of personal factors to modeling performance revealed. Especially, females' interest in the task influences performance.
KW - competence
KW - engineering education
KW - modeling
KW - personal factors
KW - software engineering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84937715997&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICIT.2015.7125580
DO - 10.1109/ICIT.2015.7125580
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84937715997
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology
SP - 3258
EP - 3263
BT - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2015
Y2 - 17 March 2015 through 19 March 2015
ER -