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Friday, March 14, 2008
A Qualitative Investigation of an All-Female Group in a Software Engineering Course ProjectAnthony Cox, et al; JITE
Past research suggests that single-sex educational environments provide many benefits to women’s learning. Similarly, as indicated by their under-representation, it is known that there are problems in attracting and subsequently retaining women in information technology disciplines. In an effort to improve the enrollment and retention of women, we created a partial single-sex environment during a third-year university software engineering course.... In general, our findings show that women enjoyed the experience and that it allowed them to develop further confidence in their abilities, as compared to their experiences in mixed-sex groups. With respect to learning, the women felt that because they were more comfortable with group members they weremore willing to attempt new tasks and reported instances of high levels of cooperation.
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