Careers in science, engineering, and medicine offer opportunities to advance knowledge,
contribute to the well-being of communities, and support the security, prosperity, and health …

Full paper. Introductory programming courses such as Computer Science 1 (CS1) are
challenging for undergraduate students. Additional obstacles to attracting and retaining …

The Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI) celebrates its ten-year
anniversary in 2016, providing an ideal opportunity to reflect on the organization, its …

CS education (CSEd) builds on educational materials, such as textbooks, presentation
slides, labs, and question test banks. Over the past 10-20 years, those materials have grown …

Peer-led Team Learning (PLTL) is a model of instruction and learning that has been used to
address low success rates in various science, technology, engineering, and mathematics …

The Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) teaching model has been widely applied in several
four-year institutions in STEM areas, including Computer Science. Although only a few two …

De acordo com o relatório da ACM intitulado Retention in computer science undergraduate
programs in the US: Data challenges and promising interventions, sobre retenção em …

This work-in-progress paper examines an innovative practice to develop peer-led learning
and teaching in an extracurricular setting. While peer-led learning has been used to …

Ten years of surging interest in computer science has produced a nearly 300% increase in
computer science (CS) majors at Ph. D. granting institutions, as well as significant increase …

There is a well-documented lack of women in many science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM) disciplines (NSF, 2017). This disparity, in addition to reflecting an …