Single gender programs: Do they make a difference?

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Koppel, Nicole B ^a   Cano, Rosa M ^b   Heyman, Suzanne B ^b   Kimmel, Howard ^b  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes to engineering; Co educational; Mechanical engineering; Single gender programs; Women in engineering

Indexed keywords

COEDUCATION; PRE-ENGINEERING PROGRAM (PREP); SINGLE GENDER PROGRAMS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; ROBOTIC ARMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 1642479289     PISSN: 01905848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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