Comparative Analysis of Male and Female Students in Programming Ability

Abstract

The gender gap in the population of the admitted students as it was observed in computer science department in federal polytechnic, ilaro is wide. In 2015, it was 25 male to 7 female, in 2016, it was 37 male to 8 female, in 2017, it was 38 male to 15 female and in 2018, 57 male to 9 female. This variation was thought to be due to lower academic performance of female students. The comparative study of the performance of both male and female students in a programming language (COM113) from the computer science department of the federal polytechnic, ilaro, over a period of four (4) years shows that the performance of the female students is at pal with the performance of male students. The results of four sessions were analyzed using the statistical mean and standard deviation. The mean of means for the performance of male and female are 52.82 and 51.38 respectively while the standard deviations are 11.37 and 11.31 for male and female respectively. T-test values of com 113 (from 2015-2018) of male and female students shows a significant difference while the p-value of the t-test is above the 0.005 which shows that there is no statistically significant relationship between the students’ performance in computer programming and the population ratio of male to female.