TY - GEN
T1 - Computer science issues in high school
T2 - 2009 ACM SIGCSE Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE-2009
AU - Gal-Ezer, Judith
AU - Shahak, Daphna
AU - Zur, Ela
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Computer Science (CS) seems to be one of the few remaining disciplines almost entirely dominated by men, especially among university faculty and in the hi-tech industry. This phenomenon is prevalent throughout the western world. In Israel, we observed it in high schools where only 30% of the students who choose to major in CS are women. It continues in Israeli universities and colleges, where usually less than 30% of CS students are women. In this paper, we provide data describing the situation in Israeli high schools. In addition, we present a survey conducted among high school students which aimed, among other goals, to discover why girls did not choose to take CS in high school. We analyze the data and provide some conclusions and ways to deal with this situation.
AB - Computer Science (CS) seems to be one of the few remaining disciplines almost entirely dominated by men, especially among university faculty and in the hi-tech industry. This phenomenon is prevalent throughout the western world. In Israel, we observed it in high schools where only 30% of the students who choose to major in CS are women. It continues in Israeli universities and colleges, where usually less than 30% of CS students are women. In this paper, we provide data describing the situation in Israeli high schools. In addition, we present a survey conducted among high school students which aimed, among other goals, to discover why girls did not choose to take CS in high school. We analyze the data and provide some conclusions and ways to deal with this situation.
KW - Computer science
KW - Education
KW - Gender
KW - High school
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77049117020&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1562877.1562963
DO - 10.1145/1562877.1562963
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AN - SCOPUS:77049117020
SN - 9781605583815
T3 - Proceedings of the Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education, ITiCSE
SP - 278
EP - 282
BT - ITiCSE-2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGCSE Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Y2 - 6 July 2009 through 8 July 2009
ER -