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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 4 months ago
Improving the persistence of first-year undergraduate women in computer science
This paper describes a study of undergraduate women's retention in the first-year of the computer science major at the University of Pennsylvania for the purpose of identifyi...
Rita Manco Powell
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Using peer-led team learning to increase participation and success of under-represented groups in introductory computer science
This paper describes the implementation and evaluation of a program that uses active recruiting and peer-led team learning to try to increase the participation and success of wome...
Susan Horwitz, Susan H. Rodger, Maureen Biggers, D...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
MPCT: media propelled computational thinking
Media-Propelled Computational Thinking (MPCT – pronounced impact) is a course designed to introduce programming in the context of engaging problems in media computation, math, a...
Eric Andrew Freudenthal, Mary K. Roy, Alexandria N...