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Women in introductory computer science: experience at Victoria University of Wellington

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Judy Brown,

Peter Andreae,

Robert Biddle,

Ewan TemperoAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '97: Proceedings of the twenty-eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 111 - 115

https://doi.org/10.1145/268084.268128

Published: 01 March 1997 Publication History

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This paper documents efforts that the department has made to support women students between 1991 and the 1996. Our major goal has been to reduce the high withdrawal rate of women students in our entry level course in computer science. We describe the approaches that have been taken to address this concern, and present the data which has been collected to track the results of our efforts. Our data suggests that providing a gender neutral content is not enough to ensure that men and women will retain similarly. In this paper we suggest policies which we feel may be beneficial in achieving similar male and female retention rates.

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Women in introductory computer science: experience at Victoria University of Wellington
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
      2. Model curricula

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March 1997

410 pages

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DOI:10.1145/268084

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Curt M. White
Rosary College, River forest, IL
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Grand Valley State Univ., Allendale MI
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Bruce Klein
Grand Valley State Univ., Allendale, MI
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Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 29, Issue 1
March 1997
388 pages
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DOI:10.1145/268085
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