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dc.contributor.authorZagami, J
dc.contributor.authorBoden, M
dc.contributor.authorKeane, T
dc.contributor.authorMoreton, B
dc.contributor.authorSchulz, K
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-15T04:45:22Z
dc.date.available2017-08-15T04:45:22Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn0816-9020
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/141478
dc.description.abstractComputer education, with a focus on computer science, has become a core subject in the Australian Curriculum and the focus of national innovation initiatives. Equal participation by girls, however, remains unlikely based on their engagement with computing in recent decades. In seeking to understand why this may be the case, a Delphi consensus process was conducted using a wide range of experts from industry and academia to explore existing research and interventions, recommending four key approaches: engaging girls in the Digital Technologies curriculum; addressing parental preconceptions and influences; providing positive role models and mentors; and supporting code clubs for girls. Unfortunately, all of these approaches have been widely implemented, and while individually successful at the scale of their implementation, have failed to systemically improve female participation in computing. The only discernable difference between initiatives to improve female participation in computing and the successful approaches in other fields such as science, has been the availability of a compulsory developmental curriculum beginning from the start of school, that may provide a scaffold that sustain female engagement over critical periods such as adolescence, when participation in computing begins to dramatically decline.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageenglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAustralian Council for Computers in Education
dc.publisher.urihttp://journal.acce.edu.au/index.php/AEC/article/view/79
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto14
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAustralian Educational Computing
dc.relation.ispartofvolume30
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEducation
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther education not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode39
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode399999
dc.titleGirls and computing: Female participation in computing in schools
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Education and Professional Studies
gro.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2015. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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gro.griffith.authorZagami, Jason A.


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