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<strong>TOJET</strong>: The <strong>Turkish</strong> Online Journal <strong>of</strong> Educational Technology – October <strong>2012</strong>, volume 11 Issue 4<br />

2) Correlation between <strong>the</strong> subjects by Romanian students attending a Ma<strong>the</strong>matics-Informatics course<br />

We have seen earlier <strong>the</strong> partial correlation by Hungarian students specialized in Informatics and Romanian<br />

students attending a science course. The following tables show <strong>the</strong> calculated values <strong>of</strong> correlation by Romanian<br />

students attending Ma<strong>the</strong>matics-Informatics course it helps to do a deeper analysis <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> results by countries and<br />

grades.<br />

TABLE XI. Correlation between <strong>the</strong> subject by Romanian students attending a Ma<strong>the</strong>matics-Informatics course<br />

in grade 11 th<br />

Subjects Control Variables Theoretical Word<br />

knowledge processing<br />

Spreadsheet Database<br />

calculation management Programming<br />

Theoretical knowledge<br />

Correlation<br />

Sig. (2-tailed)<br />

1 0,16<br />

0,62<br />

-0,23<br />

0,47<br />

0,19<br />

0,56<br />

0,12<br />

0,72<br />

Word processing<br />

Correlation<br />

Sig. (2-tailed)<br />

0,16<br />

0,62<br />

1 0,57<br />

0,05<br />

0,16<br />

0,61<br />

-0,27<br />

0,94<br />

Spreadsheet calculation<br />

Correlation<br />

Sig. (2-tailed)<br />

-0,23<br />

0,47<br />

0,57<br />

0,05<br />

1 -0,23<br />

0,47<br />

-0,09<br />

0,79<br />

Database management<br />

Correlation<br />

Sig. (2-tailed)<br />

0,19<br />

0,56<br />

0,16<br />

0,61<br />

-0,23<br />

0,47<br />

1 0,12<br />

0,72<br />

Programming<br />

Correlation<br />

Sig. (2-tailed)<br />

0,12<br />

0,72<br />

-0,27<br />

0,94<br />

-0,09<br />

0,79<br />

0,79<br />

0,12<br />

1<br />

According to <strong>the</strong> table <strong>the</strong> results by Romanian students attending a Ma<strong>the</strong>matics-Informatics course in <strong>the</strong> 11 th<br />

grade show mostly positive calculated values <strong>of</strong> correlation between <strong>the</strong> subjects (Table XI.). The calculated<br />

values show middle strong connection between spreadsheet calculation word processing.<br />

TABLE XII. Correlation between <strong>the</strong> subject by Romanian students attending a Ma<strong>the</strong>matics-Informatics course<br />

in grade 12 th<br />

Subjects<br />

Control<br />

Variables<br />

Theoretical<br />

knowledge<br />

Word<br />

processing<br />

Spreadsheet Database<br />

calculation management<br />

SQL Programming OOP<br />

Theoretical Correlation 1,00 0,47 0,62 0,70 0,55 0,01 0,50<br />

knowledge Sig. (2-tailed) 0,14 0,04 0,02 0,08 0,78 0,12<br />

Word<br />

processing<br />

Spreadsheet<br />

calculation<br />

Database<br />

management<br />

SQL<br />

Programming<br />

Object Oriented<br />

Programming<br />

Correlation 0,47 1,00 0,10 0,38 0,51 0,01 0,38<br />

Sig. (2-tailed) 0,14 0,77 0,25 0,11 0,78 0,25<br />

Correlation 0,62 0,10 1,00 0,80 0,71 -0,05 0,38<br />

Sig. (2-tailed) 0,04 0,77 0,00 0,01 0,88 0,25<br />

Correlation 0,70 0,38 0,80 1,00 0,79 -0,14 0,72<br />

Sig. (2-tailed) 0,02 0,25 0,00 0,00 0,68 0,01<br />

Correlation 0,55 0,51 0,71 0,79 1,00 -0,40 0,46<br />

Sig. (2-tailed) 0,08 0,11 0,01 0,00 0,21 0,16<br />

Correlation 0,01 0,01 -0,05 -0,14 -0,40 1,00 -0,11<br />

Sig. (2-tailed) 0,78 0,78 0,88 0,68 0,21 0,75<br />

Correlation 0,50 0,38 0,38 0,72 0,46 -0,11 1,00<br />

Sig. (2-tailed) 0,12 0,25 0,25 0,01 0,16 0,75<br />

According to <strong>the</strong> table <strong>the</strong> results by Romanian students attending a science course in <strong>the</strong> 11 th grade show mostly<br />

positive calculated values <strong>of</strong> correlation between <strong>the</strong> subjects (Table XII.). If we make a comparison with <strong>the</strong><br />

results by 11 th grade we can recognize more middle and middle strong correlation values between <strong>the</strong> subjects.<br />

The calculated values show middle strong connection between database management and spreadsheet calculation,<br />

SQL. The strong <strong>of</strong> correlation is middle between <strong>the</strong>oretical knowledge and database management, spreadsheet<br />

calculation, between spreadsheet calculation and SQL, between database management and Object Oriented<br />

Programming. It means Romanian students attending a Ma<strong>the</strong>matics-Informatics course in <strong>the</strong> 12 th could learn<br />

Copyright © The <strong>Turkish</strong> Online Journal <strong>of</strong> Educational Technology<br />

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