Why Don’t Young Adults Choose Computer Science Study Programs?
- In this contribution, we describe the activities and promotion programs installed at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University as an institution and at the Department of Computer Science respectively for increasing the total number of computer science students and in particular the female rate. We report about our experiences in addressing gender aspects in education and try to evaluate the outcome of our programs with respect to our equal rights for women strategy. We propose a closer look at mental self-theories enabled by E-portfolios to address also gender issues in Computer Science. Moreover, reasons are identified and discussed which may be responsible for the reduced interest in particular of female young adults to choose a computer science study program.
Document Type: | Conference Object |
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Language: | English |
Author: | Rainer Herpers, Manfred Kaul, Simone Bürsner |
Subtitle (English): | Self-Perception and Gender Aspects in Computer Science Education |
Parent Title (English): | Varis, Puukko (Eds.): Challenges of Global eLearning: Soul, Spirit and Skill |
First Page: | 85 |
Last Page: | 102 |
ISBN: | 978-951-44-8037-9 |
URL: | https://urn.fi/urn:isbn:978-951-44-8037-9 |
Publisher: | Tampereen yliopisto |
Publication year: | 2010 |
Note: | Ubiquitous ICT for sustainable education and cultural literacy, Hämeenlinna, Finland, 6-7 October 2008 |
Keyword: | Gender Issues in Computer Science Education; Human Factors; Management; Measurement |
Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Informatik |
Institute of Visual Computing (IVC) | |
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik |
3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 378 Hochschulbildung | |
Entry in this database: | 2015/04/02 |