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Informing Science + IT Education Conference 2003 Proceedings
| Informing Science + IT Education Conference |
| Pori, Finland June 24-27, 2003 |
| IS Skills of Business Students in Transition from Secondary to Tertiary Studies |
| Victoria University of Technology, Australia |
| This paper reports an analysis of IT software skills of some Victorian students on entry to first year terti-ary |
| studies in Business along with an analysis of their performance in "Office" type application assign-ments. The |
| assumption that youth of today are IT literate on exit from school is questioned. Despite sur-vey results suggesting |
| a high level of skill in word processing and, to a lesser extent in spreadsheets, re-sults on assignments in these areas |
| may suggest students perceive their skills as being better than their actual performance. In crowded curricula, where |
| there is pressure to include ever more material at the expense of more traditional topics, word processing and |
| spreadsheet applications are sometimes sug-gested for removal. The study reported here finds little evidence that |
| these topics should be removed from the curriculum at this stage. |
| Keywords: IT skills, software skills, software knowledge, secondary students, tertiary students |
ISSN
1535-07-03
Unless otherwise indicated, this paper has undergone blind external review by three or more reviewers.
Types of Papers: A Best Paper, Regular Paper, Short Paper, Informal Paper,
Unrefereed Panel Paper
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