A scaffolded introduction to dynamic website development for female high school students

SIGCSE Bulletin Inroads

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 226-230

  Rosson, Mary Beth ^a   Ioujanina, Anastassia ^a   Paone, Timothy ^a   Sheasley, Gretel ^a   Sinha, Hansa ^a   Ganoe, Craig ^a   Carroll, John M ^a   Mahar, Jan ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer science education; instructional scaffolding; learning tools; women in computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; DYNAMIC WEBSITE; FORMATIVE EVALUATION; HIGH SCHOOL; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; INSTRUCTIONAL SCAFFOLDING; LEARNING OBJECTIVES; LEARNING TOOLS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; WOMEN IN COMPUTING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION; WEBSITES;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 78651560666     PISSN: 10963936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1539024.1508950     Document Type: Article

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