Viewing video-taped role models improves female attitudes toward computer science

SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 42-45

  Townsend, Gloria Childress ^a  

^a DEPAUW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; MODELS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; TELEVISION SYSTEMS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; FEMALE ATTITUDES; VIDEO TAPED ROLE MODELS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 0029717259     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/236462.236491     Document Type: Article

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