Peer mentoring female computing students does it make a difference?

Proceedings of the 3rd Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education, ACSE 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 41-47

  Craig, A ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computing; Mentoring; Retention; Women

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING;

BUSINESS COMPUTING; COMPUTING; FEMALE STUDENTS; INTERVENTION STRATEGY; MENTORING; PEER-MENTORING; RETENTION; WOMEN;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84869104210     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/289393.289401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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