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Lakanen, Antti-Jussi; Kärkkäinen, Tommi – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2019
Short-term outreach interventions are conducted to raise young students' awareness of the computer science (CS) field. Typically, these interventions are targeted at K--12 students, attempting to encourage them to study CS in higher education. This study is based on a series of extra-curricular outreach events that introduced students to the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Programming, Outreach Programs, Intervention
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McGill, Monica M.; Decker, Adrienne; Settle, Amber – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2016
A lack of diversity in the computing field has existed for several decades, and although female participation in computing remains low, outreach programs attempting to address the situation are now quite numerous. To begin to understand whether or not these past activities have had long-term impact, we conducted a systematic literature review.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Student Experience, Majors (Students)