Improving the Persistence of First-Year Undergraduate Women in Computer Science

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attrition
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gender issues
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computer science education
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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 identifying the underlying issues responsible for attrition. The subsequent steps taken by the faculty to improve women's retention is also discussed.

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2008-07-31
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Postprint version. Copyright ACM, 2008. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science, pages 518-22. Publisher URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1352135.1352308
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