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Experience of Administering Our First S-STEM Program to Broaden Participation in Computer Science

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An-I Andy Wang,

Zhenghao Zhang,

Gary TysonAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '20: Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Pages 535 - 541

https://doi.org/10.1145/3328778.3366890

Published: 26 February 2020 Publication History

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This paper documents the findings of our analysis of the implementation of our six-year NSF S-STEM scholarship program. One major finding was that, for underrepresented students to major in computer science, knowing the major existed and understanding the nature of the program were the most important factors. Also, the academic support system and hands-on nature of the major had a significant impact on scholarship recipients' persistence in the major. Evidence demonstrated that scholarship recipients had a 10%+ higher year-to-year persistence rate from their freshmen to sophomore year than that of all computer science students of the same entering classes. For all computer science students, college computer science major GPAs were not strongly correlated with their high school GPAs, financial need, or ACT math scores. This paper also presents lessons learned and resulting recommendations for future new scholarship administrators, as our lessons can likely be applied to other grants that recruit and deal with underrepresented groups.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3623762.3633496
Kumar ADoyle MHong VJoshi AKurkovsky SRollins S(2021)Helping Academically Talented STEM Students with Financial Need Succeed2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)10.1109/FIE49875.2021.9637250(1-9)Online publication date: 13-Oct-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE49875.2021.9637250

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Experience of Administering Our First S-STEM Program to Broaden Participation in Computer Science
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education

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Baghban Karimi OToti GGutica MRobinson RZhang LPaterson JLindner PO'Dea MLaakso MMonga MSimon Sheard J(2023)Enhancing Diversity and Inclusion in Computer Science Undergraduate Programs: The Role of AdmissionsProceedings of the 2023 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education10.1145/3623762.3633496(1-29)Online publication date: 22-Dec-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3623762.3633496
Kumar ADoyle MHong VJoshi AKurkovsky SRollins S(2021)Helping Academically Talented STEM Students with Financial Need Succeed2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)10.1109/FIE49875.2021.9637250(1-9)Online publication date: 13-Oct-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE49875.2021.9637250

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