Increasing high school girls' self confidence and awareness of CS through a positive summer experience

Proceedings of the SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 185-189

  Pollock, Lori ^a   McCoy, Kathleen ^a   Carberry, Sandra ^a   Hundigopal, Namratha ^a   You, Xiaoxin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative learning; High school girls; Web programming

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; STUDENTS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COOPERATIVE LEARNING; HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS; TEACHING ASSISTANTS; WEB PROGRAMMING;

EDUCATION;

EID: 2642555650     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/971300.971369     Document Type: Conference Paper

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