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The Nurnberg funnel: designing minimalist instruction for practical computer skill
The Nurnberg funnel: designing minimalist instruction for practical computer skill
Gender-based differences in attitudes toward computers
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An ACM-W literature review on women in computing
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Gender differences in computer science students
SIGCSE '03 Proceedings of the 34th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
A media computation course for non-majors
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Understanding gender and confidence in CS course culture
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Contrasting women's experiences in computer science at different institutions
Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
An introductory course format for promoting diversity and retention
Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Gender difference trends in computer literacy of first-year students
Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Antecedents to End Users' Success in Learning to Program in an Introductory Programming Course
VLHCC '07 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
Improving the persistence of first-year undergraduate women in computer science
Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Gender stereotypes prevail in ICT: a research review
Proceedings of the special interest group on management information system's 47th annual conference on Computer personnel research
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Why are we still here?: experiences of successful women in computing
ITiCSE '09 Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
The personality traits of instrumentality and expressiveness in relation to microcomputer playfulness
Design Planning in End-User Web Development: Gender, Feature Exploration and Feelings of Success
VLHCC '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
An Empirical Study of the “Prototype Walkthrough”: A Studio-Based Activity for HCI Education
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
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Researchers have been working to understand the factors that may be contributing to low rates of participation by women and other minorities in the computer and information sciences (CIS). We describe a multivariate investigation of male and female university students’ orientation to CIS careers. We focus on the roles of self-efficacy and peer-based social support as social-cognitive variables in the students’ learning process. We explore these variables and their impact on career orientation through a set of overlapping regression models. In general, we find that strong social support and high self-efficacy are associated with strong orientation toward careers in CIS careers. However the influences of perceived self-efficacy and social support appear to differ for men and women: while low self-efficacy is tied to less social support for males, we see no similar tendency for females. In fact many females who report themselves as low in self-efficacy consider themselves to have high social support among their peers. We discuss the implications of our findings for programs aimed at outreach to both males and females regarding CIS education and careers.