On to the real world: Gender and self-efficacy in excel

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 119-126

  Beckwith, Laura ^a   Inman, Derek ^a   Rector, Kyle ^a   Burnett, Margaret ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

END-USER PROGRAMMINGS; GENDER ISSUES; LABORATORY STUDIES; REAL WORLDS; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS;

SPREADSHEETS;

EID: 47949089537     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2007.42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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