Improving the persistence of first-year undergraduate women in computer science

SIGCSE'08 - Proceedings of the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 518-522

  Powell, Rita Manco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attrition; Curriculum; Gender issues; Persistence

Indexed keywords

ATTRITION; GENDER ISSUES; PENNSYLVANIA; PERSISTENCE; UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN;

COMPUTERS; CURRICULA;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 57449102929     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1352135.1352308     Document Type: Conference Paper

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