Increasing student retention in computer science through research programs for undergraduates

Peckham, Joan; Stephenson, Peter; Herve, J.-Y.; Hutt, Ron; Encarnação, Miguel

doi:10.1145/1227310.1227354

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“…The two most significant reasons for low enrolment numbers in CS have been the rise of outsourcing in the industry and the dot-com bust. These two trends reduced the financial incentive of CS as a career choice (Mahmoud 2005;Peckham et al 2007). Apart from these two trends, the Y2K boom in the late 1990s also resulted in reduced IT enrolments in United States universities (George et al 2005).…”

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The combined effect of self-efficacy and academic integration on higher education students studying IT majors in Taiwan

Weng

Cheong

2009

Educ Inf Technol

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The purpose of this study is to examine the combined effect of selfefficacy and academic integration on higher education students studying IT (Information Technology) majors in Taiwan. We introduced self-efficacy, which is a psychological factor that affects students' academic outcomes, as a new factor in Tinto' theory, a well-known framework in student retention research. Academic integration is the main proposition of Tinto's theory affecting students' decision to dropout. Students from different populations have various reasons from dropping out of their studies. An examination of the relationship between self-efficacy and academic integration is useful to understand the effect of self-efficacy on academic outcomes on the IT student population in Taiwan. Data from a Taiwanese national survey database conducted in 2005 was used to achieve the research objective. A total of 2,895 records were extracted from 75,084 students in public and private institutions studying in two IT-related Majors, namely Information Management (IM) and Computer Science (CS). MANOVA was used to analyze the interaction effects between academic integration and self-efficacy. The independent variables were institution types and students' majors. The results showed that students from public institutions have higher levels of self-efficacy than students from private ones. Another finding is that IM students seem to have better study strategies and habits than CS students. However, CS students were found to have better collaboration and satisfaction with their institutions than IM students. Team projects, counselling Educ Inf Technol (2010) 15:333-353 services, and flexible teaching and learning strategy are suggested to enhance students' academic integration and self-efficacy.

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The combined effect of self-efficacy and academic integration on higher education students studying IT majors in Taiwan

Weng

Cheong

2009

Educ Inf Technol

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“…The focus and attention to recruiting students in CS and the identification of 'best practices' methods that yield results, has not been formalized prior to this. Retention in the major, addressed by others [3,4,5], is outside the scope of the effort described here. The objective of the work presented here was to identify recruiting methods to increase the number of undergraduates coming to public comprehensive universities to study CS.…”

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

Morreale

Kurkovsky

Chang

2009

Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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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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“…Peckham et al addressed the decrease in female students at Rhode Island Computer Science program with introducing students to research in computer graphics, art, and new media [14]. With employing mentoring practice, pedagogy, and problem-based learning, they were able to increase the retention rates of the underrepresented female students [14].…”

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“…With employing mentoring practice, pedagogy, and problem-based learning, they were able to increase the retention rates of the underrepresented female students [14].…”

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Improving Female Student Retention in Computer Science during the First Programming Course

Varol¹,

Varol²

2014

IJIET

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Abstract-This paper is an evaluation study to improve female student retention in Computer Science during the first programming course. Although, colleges are using variety of ways to attract female students to continue their studies in Computer Science, the number of female students is decreasing in the major. Therefore, we have employed two survey studies to learn more about the lack of supported items in the major and tried to address most of those issues in the classroom to see the change in student's feeling about Computer Science. Moreover, we support some of our suggestions not only by the survey results, but also students' performance from the course. We observed that lack of communication among students and with faculty, primitive programming editors, and not well prepared course materials are some of the reasons for the decrease in female student retention.

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Increasing student retention in computer science through research programs for undergraduates

Cited by 43 publications

References 7 publications

The combined effect of self-efficacy and academic integration on higher education students studying IT majors in Taiwan

The combined effect of self-efficacy and academic integration on higher education students studying IT majors in Taiwan

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

Improving Female Student Retention in Computer Science during the First Programming Course

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