Understanding gender and confidence in CS course culture

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

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 195-199

  Irani, Lilly ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom case study; Classroom issues; Confidence; Gender and diversity; Gender and education; Social factors in computing; Women

Indexed keywords

CLASSROOM CASE STUDY; CLASSROOM ISSUES; CONFIDENCE; GENDER AND DIVERSITY; GENDER AND EDUCATION; SOCIAL FACTORS IN COMPUTING; WOMEN;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURVEYS; TEACHING;

SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EID: 33646848259     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: 00978418     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1028174.971371     Document Type: Conference Paper

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