Impact of introducing single-gender classrooms in higher education on student achievement levels: A case study in software engineering courses in the GCC region

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zeid, Amir ^a   El Bahey, Rehab ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF KUWAIT   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Single Gender education; Software Engineering

Indexed keywords

COURSE PERFORMANCE; GENDER SEGREGATION; HIGHER EDUCATION; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; LEARNING EXPERIENCES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COURSE; STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT; TEACHING SOFTWARE;

SOCIAL SCIENCES; STUDENTS; TEACHING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84858274505     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2011.6142921     Document Type: Conference Paper

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