Attaching Women to the CS Major

Tillberg, Heather K.; Cohoon, J. McGrath

doi:10.1353/fro.2005.0016

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“…Focussing on applications and holding class debates and discussions has an equal effect on boys and girls. This is a minor difference with Tillberg and Cohoon (2005) who argue that girls' prefer a contextualised curriculum in which technology is generally seen as a tool for solving humanity's problems and enriching humanity's experiences. Not only was the positive impact of hands-on activities for boys important in this research, even more interesting was the effect of investigations.…”

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The effect of classroom activities on students’ interest and career aspirations towards technology

Ardies

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Gijbels

2015

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The effect of classroom activities on students’ interest and career aspirations towards technology

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Gijbels

2015

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“…It not only pushes the students away from CS majors, but it also has them take alternative courses or courses from other institutions (Tillberg & Cohoon, 2005).…”

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Teaching an Introductory Programming Language in a General Education Course

Ali

Smith

2014

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A department of computer science (CS) has faced a peculiar situation regarding their selection of introductory programming course. This course is a required course for the students enrolled in the CS program and is a prerequisite to their other advanced programming courses. At the same time, the course can be considered a general education course and may be taken by students from other majors as well. Both student populations require the department to teach the course at different levels of depth. CS students need it be covered in more depth to prepare them for their upper level programming courses. At the same time, students from other majors who are taking it as part of their general education course will not be interested in this level of depth. Added to this is the fact that taking a first programming course is considered difficult to most students. Thus many factors are considered for the selection of a programming language for this course. After further experience and additional technological development, the department redesigned their course and curriculum in order to provide most effective solution to this dilemma. The experience of this department in reaching this solution along with the relevant literature reviews are discussed in this paper.

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“…Previous work on successful recruiting approaches has addressed both the high-school environment [5,7] and community college transfers [8,9]. Additionally, recruiting experiences for NSF S-STEM awards in CS is discussed [10].…”

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“…A study of undergraduate CS majors from sixteen departments [7] at a range of U.S. universities and colleges, including public, private, urban, non-urban, Ph.D.-granting, Masters-only and Bachelor's-only agreed with the more recent detail provided by the Georgia Tech study. Early exposure to computing, a perceived match between the student's self-assessed abilities, and knowledge of computing careers were found to be the strongest indicators of selecting CS as a major in college.…”

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“…Public comprehensive universities were significantly impacted, as returning students sought new skills and incumbent students requested additional courses and curriculum offerings. CS departments at Ph.D. (7,915) was half of what it was in Fall 2000 (15,958) [1]. In developing the methodology presented here, given these declining trends, we adopted a business-oriented perspective in which incoming students were viewed as customers who no longer queued up expecting services.…”

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Methodology for successful undergraduate recruiting in computer science at comprehensive public universities

2009

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This paper presents a methodology for increasing undergraduate Computer Science (CS) major enrollment at comprehensive public universities, particularly those that have first generation college students or students from underrepresented populations in professional computer science in the United States. While there has been significant prior discussion of undergraduate recruiting to increase major enrollment in CS, this is the first identification of a systematic approach to recruiting distinct undergraduate student populations into the CS major. Nationally, highly selective and selective universities and colleges have worked within their student populations to increase major enrollments, while CS departments at comprehensive public universities primarily focused on regional recruiting have also worked to identify and increase CS major enrollments. The approach outlined here addresses regional recruiting for undergraduate majors in CS and has been used at two public universities. The resulting methodology serves as a template for any department or faculty member seeking to increase undergraduate enrollment in CS.

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Attaching Women to the CS Major

Cited by 69 publications

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The effect of classroom activities on students’ interest and career aspirations towards technology

The effect of classroom activities on students’ interest and career aspirations towards technology

Teaching an Introductory Programming Language in a General Education Course

Methodology for successful undergraduate recruiting in computer science at comprehensive public universities

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