Gender Difference and Attitude towards Group Work

Running head: Social Psychology 1
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Table of Content
Introduction.................................................................................1
Descriptive Analysis........................................................................2
Conclusion....................................................................................5

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Introduction
Working as a group is a technique that is widely used in teaching especially among the
students who are in higher education. Most institutions find themselves using this method during
their class sessions and many more. Even though teachers use this technique, some of the
students don't prefer this technique. In fact, they understand more when they study individually.
Nevertheless, we can't ignore this technique because many students understand the class units
easily when they share ideas during group discussion. Some of the students barely understand
anything during the class session and they really depend on group work to at least grasp some
ideas from different units being taught in classes (Azad & Kalam, 2013). To get more
information about this topic, research was conducted in order to achieve whatever is being
required. An experiment was conducted within the environment of James Cook University, a
campus in Singapore. 34 students showed up for the experiment since the experiment was
voluntary.
The aim of the assignment is to determine the gender difference and attitude towards
group work. To achieve the desired results, a questionnaire (Likert scale questionnaire) was
designed to help come up with data for the analysis. The questionnaire contained 3 parts that
needed to be filled by the participants. A total of 34 respondents were involved in the data
collection. The questionnaire had questions that had different scores according to the type of
questions and the aim of the question. After the data collection, data entry was done using SPSS
(Statistical Package for the Social Science) software. After the data entry, the data was edited
into the software and the analysis was later carried out.

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The Analysis
The data analysis was conducted to give information on the data collected. The measure
of central tendency (mean, mode and median) and measure of dispersion (variance, standard
deviation, and interquartile range), Skewness and Kurtosis results for each gender were also
obtained as shown below.
i) Female
95 % confidence was used for the analysis which produced the above output. The mean score for
mean was 3.0159. The trimmed mean was 3.05, the median of the female was 3, the variance
was obtained to be 0.049, the standard deviation obtained was 0.22, the minimum was 2.11 and
the maximum was 3.22 which gave us a range of 1.11. To measure the normality and distribution
of the female data, the focus will be on the value of Kurtosis and Skewness. In our case, the
value of Skewness is -3.71 which is lower than -1 and therefore, one concludes that the
distribution is substantially skewed and since the value of Kurtosis is 15.853 which is greater