Gender, Achievement, and Persistence in an Undergraduate Computer Science Program

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 42-57

  Katz, Sandra ^a   Allbritton, David ^b   Aronis, John ^a   Wilson, Christine ^a   Soffa, Mary Lou ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement and Retention of Students in an Undergraduate Computer Science Program; Gender and Computer Science Education; Under Representation of Women in Computer Science

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016495471     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1185335.1185344     Document Type: Article

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