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TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology – October 2012, volume 11 Issue 4
2) Correlation between the subjects by Romanian students attending a Mathematics-Informatics course
We have seen earlier the partial correlation by Hungarian students specialized in Informatics and Romanian
students attending a science course. The following tables show the calculated values of correlation by Romanian
students attending Mathematics-Informatics course it helps to do a deeper analysis of the results by countries and
grades.
TABLE XI. Correlation between the subject by Romanian students attending a Mathematics-Informatics course
in grade 11 th
Subjects Control Variables Theoretical Word
knowledge processing
Spreadsheet Database
calculation management Programming
Theoretical knowledge
Correlation
Sig. (2-tailed)
1 0,16
0,62
-0,23
0,47
0,19
0,56
0,12
0,72
Word processing
Correlation
Sig. (2-tailed)
0,16
0,62
1 0,57
0,05
0,16
0,61
-0,27
0,94
Spreadsheet calculation
Correlation
Sig. (2-tailed)
-0,23
0,47
0,57
0,05
1 -0,23
0,47
-0,09
0,79
Database management
Correlation
Sig. (2-tailed)
0,19
0,56
0,16
0,61
-0,23
0,47
1 0,12
0,72
Programming
Correlation
Sig. (2-tailed)
0,12
0,72
-0,27
0,94
-0,09
0,79
0,79
0,12
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According to the table the results by Romanian students attending a Mathematics-Informatics course in the 11 th
grade show mostly positive calculated values of correlation between the subjects (Table XI.). The calculated
values show middle strong connection between spreadsheet calculation word processing.
TABLE XII. Correlation between the subject by Romanian students attending a Mathematics-Informatics course
in grade 12 th
Subjects
Control
Variables
Theoretical
knowledge
Word
processing
Spreadsheet Database
calculation management
SQL Programming OOP
Theoretical Correlation 1,00 0,47 0,62 0,70 0,55 0,01 0,50
knowledge Sig. (2-tailed) 0,14 0,04 0,02 0,08 0,78 0,12
Word
processing
Spreadsheet
calculation
Database
management
SQL
Programming
Object Oriented
Programming
Correlation 0,47 1,00 0,10 0,38 0,51 0,01 0,38
Sig. (2-tailed) 0,14 0,77 0,25 0,11 0,78 0,25
Correlation 0,62 0,10 1,00 0,80 0,71 -0,05 0,38
Sig. (2-tailed) 0,04 0,77 0,00 0,01 0,88 0,25
Correlation 0,70 0,38 0,80 1,00 0,79 -0,14 0,72
Sig. (2-tailed) 0,02 0,25 0,00 0,00 0,68 0,01
Correlation 0,55 0,51 0,71 0,79 1,00 -0,40 0,46
Sig. (2-tailed) 0,08 0,11 0,01 0,00 0,21 0,16
Correlation 0,01 0,01 -0,05 -0,14 -0,40 1,00 -0,11
Sig. (2-tailed) 0,78 0,78 0,88 0,68 0,21 0,75
Correlation 0,50 0,38 0,38 0,72 0,46 -0,11 1,00
Sig. (2-tailed) 0,12 0,25 0,25 0,01 0,16 0,75
According to the table the results by Romanian students attending a science course in the 11 th grade show mostly
positive calculated values of correlation between the subjects (Table XII.). If we make a comparison with the
results by 11 th grade we can recognize more middle and middle strong correlation values between the subjects.
The calculated values show middle strong connection between database management and spreadsheet calculation,
SQL. The strong of correlation is middle between theoretical knowledge and database management, spreadsheet
calculation, between spreadsheet calculation and SQL, between database management and Object Oriented
Programming. It means Romanian students attending a Mathematics-Informatics course in the 12 th could learn
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