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Volume 22 Number 3
Fall 2003
Women & Minorities in IT
Guest Editor: Roli Varma
Special Issue Features
8 Diversifying Computing
The Computing Research Association supports programs
to promote diversity in the computing research community.
William Aspray
10 NSF Initiatives for the Information Technology Workforce
The United States government encourages the progress
of women and underrepresented minorities in information technology.
Caroline Wardle
12 The Computer Science Pipeline in Urban High Schools: Access to What? For Whom?*
Few African-American and Latino/a students are going
beyond learning how to use a technology, to acquire the necessary
knowledge to create it.
Jane Margolis, Jennifer Jellison Holme, Rachel Estrella, Joanna Goode, Kim Nao, and Simeon Stumme
20 Gender and Race in Predicting Achievement in Computer Science*
Experimentation as a learning strategy facilitates achievement in computer science.
Sandra Katz, John Aronis, David Allbritton, Christine Wilson, and Mary Lou Soffa
28 Female Graduate Students and Program Quality*
Departments that make greater efforts to recruit
female graduate students seem to enroll women in no greater percentages
than departments putting little into recruiting women.
J. McGrath Cohoon and Katharine M. Baylor
36 Women of Color in IT: Degree Trends and Policy Implications*
Many women abandon plans to major in science during
their first undergraduate year. The more comfortable and confident
women are about their technical skills, the more likely they are to
continue to major in computer science.
Cheryl B. Leggon
43 Computer Self-Efficacy, Gender, and Educational Background in South Africa *
Research shows differences in confidence levels and
self-esteem based on gender, and between advantaged and disadvantaged
South African university-level computer science students.
Vashti Galpin, Ian Sanders, Heather Turner, and Bernadine Venter
* Refereed articles.
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