The incredible shrinking pipeline
Communications of the ACM
Viewpoint: Why women avoid computer science
Communications of the ACM
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin - Women and Computing
Unlocking the clubhouse: the Carnegie Mellon experience
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin - Women and Computing
An ACM-W literature review on women in computing
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin - Women and Computing
Gender differences in computer science students
SIGCSE '03 Proceedings of the 34th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Gender: An Important Factor in End-User Programming Environments?
VLHCC '04 Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages - Human Centric Computing
Gender HCI: What About the Software?
Computer
Gendered experiences of computing graduate programs
Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Analysis of research into the teaching and learning of programming
ICER '09 Proceedings of the fifth international workshop on Computing education research workshop
Patterns in student assessment of problem-solving software
FIE'09 Proceedings of the 39th IEEE international conference on Frontiers in education conference
Expanding CS1: applications across the liberal arts
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Degrees, distance, and dollars
Communications of the ACM
An interactive functional programming tutor
Proceedings of the 17th ACM annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
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We examined whether using problem-solving software tutors in Computer Science I can help improve the self-confidence of female students. We analyzed the data collected by five software tutors in spring 2006. We found that 1) the self-confidence of female Computer Science I students before using the software tutors was in many cases lower than that of male students, as has been stated in prior literature; 2) Using problem-solving software tutors improved the self-confidence of female students to be on par with that of male students when female students started with lower prior self-confidence. Since researchers have suggested that self-confidence is one of the factors contributing to the shrinking pipeline, problem-solving software tutors can be used to improve the retention of female students in Computer Science.