Career aspirations, perceived instrumentality, and achievement in undergraduate computer science courses

MS Peteranetz, AE Flanigan, DF Shell… - Contemporary Educational …, 2018 - Elsevier
This research investigated the relationships among undergraduate computer science
students' computer-science-related career aspirations, perceived instrumentality (PI) for …

Perceived instrumentality and career aspirations in CS1 courses: Change and relationships with achievement

MS Peteranetz, AE Flanigan, DF Shell… - Proceedings of the 2016 …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
We explored CS1 students' perceived instrumentality (PI) for the course and aspirations for a
career related to CS. Perceived instrumentality refers to the connection one sees between a …

Using Futures Studies in Computing and Engineering Education:“Emergentist Education” in an Open-Ended Group Project

AK Peters, D Golay, M Daniels - 2021 IEEE Frontiers in …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Researchers in futures studies argue that the future needs to be understood as uncertain, as
not yet there. This renders mainstream educational discourses problematic, those that centre …

[PDF][PDF] Changing the face of engineering: Can photovoltaic engineering lead the charge?

S Shapcott, KG Nelson, J Husman - American Society for Engineering …, 2012 - jee.asee.org
The low recruitment and high attrition rate of women in engineering is well documented.
Women account for only twenty percent of the entering class cohort, and drop out at a rate …

[PDF][PDF] Being a Female Engineer: A Dialectic

M Gutcher - 2011 - phoenixfiles.olin.edu
Today, in spite of the evidence, women are arguing over the question of whether women are
oppressed at all. And therein lies the rub: How do younger women reconcile the gap …