DocumentCode
3206535
Title
Focusing high school teachers on attracting diverse students to computer science and engineering
Author
Cohoon, James ; Cohoon, Joanne M. ; Soffa, Mary Lou
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
fYear
2011
fDate
12-15 Oct. 2011
Abstract
An effective workshop has been developed for promoting a positive impact on high school teachers´ recruitment of students, particularly women and minority students, into their CS classes. All past workshop attendees indicate they now are actively try to recruit girls and minority students into their computing classes and are successful in doing so.
Keywords
computer science education; engineering education; further education; gender issues; computer science; computer science college; computing class; engineering; high school teacher; minority students; student recruitment; women students; Computer science; Computer science education; Computers; Conferences; Educational institutions; Engineering profession; CS education; Diversity; High school computing curriculum; Workshop organization;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2011
Conference_Location
Rapid City, SD
ISSN
0190-5848
Print_ISBN
978-1-61284-468-8
Electronic_ISBN
0190-5848
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/FIE.2011.6143054
Filename
6143054
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