Classrooms matter: The design of virtual classrooms influences gender disparities in computer science classes

Computers and Education

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1825-1835

  Cheryan, Sapna ^a   Meltzoff, Andrew N ^a   Kim, Saenam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed learning environments; Gender studies; Improving classroom teaching; Teaching learning strategies; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENDER DISPARITY; GENDER STUDIES; IMPROVING CLASSROOM TEACHING; INTRODUCTORY COMPUTER SCIENCE; KEY DETERMINANTS; LEARNING MATERIALS; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; SENSE OF BELONGING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUCCESS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE; TEACHING/LEARNING STRATEGIES; VIRTUAL CLASSROOM; VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; DESIGN; E-LEARNING; SCHOOL BUILDINGS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

TEACHING;

EID: 79957538722     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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