This poster describes the efforts at Norfolk State University to retain female computer science majors during the 2005-2006 academic year. They added a course titled Introduction to the Computer Science Profession that...

This poster from Tammy K. Baldwin and Michelle Hall Wallace introduces an experiment which aimed "to evaluate change in students' spatial skills as a result of completing an earth science course." The study results show...

As a past president of the National Academy of Engineering put it, "A consequence of lack of diversity...[is that] we pay an opportunity cost, a cost in designs not thought of, in solutions not produced." Thus, in an...

This dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania examines fourteen women in their first year of the computer science major. The study looks at the pre-college influences that led these women to the major and the...

This webinar presented by Sheryl A. Sorby, Ph.D., explains why it is important to teach female students spatial reasoning skills. The webinar is 42 minutes and includes a demonstration of Dr. Sorby's software...