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Do roadshows work?: examining the effectiveness of just be

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Joseph A. Cottam,

Samantha S. Foley,

Suzanne MenzelAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '10: Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 17 - 21

https://doi.org/10.1145/1734263.1734271

Published: 10 March 2010 Publication History

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Outreach programs communicating the importance and diversity of computing to K-12 students are essential to improving attitudes toward computing. However, the effectiveness of outreach programs, and roadshows in particular, has only recently come under study. Just Be is an outreach roadshow program at Indiana University. It directly addresses stereotypical attitudes towards computing. This paper demonstrates, through statistical analysis of surveys given to college students who participated in a Just Be presentation prepared for high school students, that the Just Be roadshow effectively shifts attitudes for the better.

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Do roadshows work?: examining the effectiveness of just be
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education

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SIGCSE '10: Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

March 2010

618 pages

ISBN:9781450300063

DOI:10.1145/1734263

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