Abstract
The main objective of this paper is to determine the difficulty level of the 881certificates acquired online by the selected 94 students at the School of Information and Computing Sciences during the time of implementation of enhanced community quarantine as an alternative way to complete the 486-hour requirement of their training. This research paper considers the following problems: the level of difficulty of the 881 certificates; the provision of basis for the equivalent points/hours per certificates; and the gender of those who got more interest in acquiring certificates. This paper utilized quantitative research. Gathering of data was done through the utilization of linkedin.com, data gathered was tallied in the spreadsheet, and average function was used in the analysis. Result shows that 100% of the female participants has an excess number of certificates while it is only 97.83% from the male participants. In the final result, CSS and PHP fall under Easy which is 86 or 91.49% divided into male = 51% and female = 49%, which shows that male participants have this level with an equivalent 10 points/hours. A total of 9 certificates fall under the average level in favor of male with an equivalent 20 points/hours and those are the following: HTML, C++, SQL, JAVASCRIPT, C#, C, JAVA, JQUERY, and PYTHON. The result of the difficult level with an equivalent 30 points/hours is consist of 5 certificates namely: SWIFT, RUBY, ORACLE, MACHINELEARNING, and DATASCIENCEWITHPYTHON in favor of females.
Presenters
Lorimer ImperioAssistant Professor II, College of Information and Computing Sciences, Marinduque State College, Marinduque, Philippines
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2021 Special Focus: Considering Viral Technologies: Pandemic-Driven Opportunities and Challenges
KEYWORDS
Difficulty Level, E-Learning, Certificates, Programming Languages
