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Turkle, Sherry; Papert, Seymour – Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1990
Recent technological developments in interfaces, programing philosophy, and artificial intelligence may invite the participation of women programers, who find a concrete, intuitive, and informal style of programing more congenial than the hierarchical, rule-driven style heretofore pervasive in computer culture. (DM)
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Education, Computers, Females
Alspach, Phyllis A. – 1988
This study analyzed the enrollment of two computer classes at a public high school in northern Indiana to see if there was any computer inequity. The two classes examined--an introduction to computers course and a computer programming course--were studied over a period of four years. The sample consisted of 388 students in four years of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education, Correlation
Cusick, Theresa; And Others – 1986
This examination of computer equity argues that current educational trends--which emphasize teaching applications of computers rather than programming--will limit the computer skills of students. Added to this difficulty is the argument that some students (often minority and female students) need not be pushed to learn programming if they don't…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Patterns

Enochs, Larry G. – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 1984
Examined effects of beginning computer programing instruction, sex, and home computers on the attitudes of fifth-grade students (N=49). Results of this pilot study showed higher attitudes following instruction and no differences between the sexes or between those who had computers and those who did not. (JN)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Computer Science Education, Educational Research, Elementary School Students

Koohang, Alex A. – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1989
Describes study of undergraduate students that measured four types of attitudes toward computers: (1) computer anxiety; (2) computer confidence; (3) computer liking; and (4) perception of computer usefulness. Independent variables used in the study include gender; keyboard familiarity; prior computer experience; and knowledge of programing, word…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science Education, Database Management Systems
The Influence of Programming Training on the Computer Literacy and Attitudes of Preservice Teachers.

Woodrow, Janice E. J. – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1992
This pretest/posttest study measured the change in computer literacy and attitudes toward computers among 36 preservice teachers enrolled in an introductory computer training course that was focused on developing programing skills. Independent variables included age, gender, locus of control, final grade in the course, and prior experience in word…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Attitude Change, Computer Literacy