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Eccles' model of achievent-related choices: the case of computer science studies in Israeli high schools

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Larisa Eidelman,

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SIGCSE '07: Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 29 - 33

https://doi.org/10.1145/1227310.1227322

Published: 07 March 2007 Publication History

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Worldwide surveys indicate that the number of women studying undergraduate-level Computer Science is constantly decreasing. Based on data collected in Israel, significant differences were found in the percentages of fale high school students studying advanced-level Computer Science among different sectors. More specifically, while the percentage of fale high school students studying advanced-level Computer Science is about 50% for the Arab minority sector, the percentage of fale students studying Computer Science at the same level among the Jewish majority sector is only about 25%. This situation was investigated by using both qualitative and quantitative research tools. The paper illustrates the analysis of the data within the model of 'achievent-related choices' developed by Eccles and her colleagues.

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DOI:10.1145/1227310

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Carter JWhite SFraser KKurkovsky SMcCreesh CWieck M(2010)ITiCSE 2010 working group report motivating our top studentsProceedings of the 2010 ITiCSE working group reports10.1145/1971681.1971685(29-47)Online publication date: 28-Jun-2010
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Cecil DGantz DBaker KGarrison D(2009)Personality types of IT professorsProceedings of the 10th ACM conference on SIG-information technology education10.1145/1631728.1631735(13-23)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2009
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