SENTIMENT ANALYSIS ON SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT STAGES AMONG MALE AND FEMALE LECTURERS TEACHING COMPUTER PROGRAMMING COURSES IN FEDERAL UNIVERSITIES SOUTH-SOUTH NIGERIA

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the sentiments on software development stages among male and female lecturers teaching computer programming courses in Federal University South South Nigeria. Descriptive survey design was adopted for this study. The population for this study was 130 lecturers teaching computer programming courses in Federal Universities South South Nigeria. Total sampling technique was used to select the entire population. Five specific purposes were stated to guide the study, five research questions were raised in the study and five null hypotheses were formulated and tested in the study. Mean statistic was used to answer the research questions and independent t-test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The instrument for data collection was questionnaire titled“sentiment analysis on software development stages questionnaire (SASDSQ)”.The instrument was subjected to face validation by experts. Cronbach Alpha statistics was used to determine the reliability coefficient of the instrument which yielded 0.84. The results showed a sentiment gap between -1 to 1. Where value of the sentiment gap is zero(0), it indicates that there is no sentiment, that both male and female lecturers have the same logical reasoning on those items and where the sentiment gap is negative or positive, it indicates that there is sentiment and there is need to bridge the sentiment gaps on each of the items. Hypotheses revealed that there is a significant sentiment difference in the mean responses of male and female lecturers teaching computer programming courses in Federal Universities in South-South Nigeria. Based on these findings, it is therefore recommended among others that universities, management, professional agencies like Computer Society of Nigeria(CSN), Computer Regulatory council of Nigeria(CRCN) and other related agencies should organized workshops, seminars,  interactive forum for lecturers to meet and share their experiences and sentiment in software development stages in order to harmonize the standards of software development among computing students in Federal Universities as well as developing software that adhere to global standard.