Happenstance and Compromise: A Gendered Analysis of Students' Computing Degree Course Selection

Catherine Lang

Computer Science Education Vol. 20, No. 4 (December 2010) pp. 317–345

The number of students choosing to study computing at university continues to decline this century, with an even sharper decline in female students. This article presents the results of a series of interviews with university students studying...

Tertiary computing course selection: The impact of mathematics anxiety on female decision making

Catherine Lang

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 18, No. 3 (Jan 01, 2002) pp. 341–358

Is mathematics anxiety contributing to the declining numbers of females enrolling in tertiary computing courses? Initial observation of enrolments in tertiary computing courses at an Australian university suggests a direct correlation between the...

Twenty-First Century Australian Women and IT: Exercising the Power of Choice

Catherine Lang

Computer Science Education Vol. 17, No. 3 (September 2007) pp. 215–226

This paper investigates the Australian literature relating to female under-representation in the information technology (IT) sphere of careers and education. This summary of the current body of literature presented through the lens of the nature of...

Gender and Stereotypes in Motivation to Study Computer Programming for Careers in Multimedia

Wendy Doube; Catherine Lang

Computer Science Education Vol. 22, No. 1 (2012) pp. 63–78

A multimedia university programme with relatively equal numbers of male and female students in elective programming subjects provided a rare opportunity to investigate female motivation to study and pursue computer programming in a career. The MSLQ...

The Ripple Effect: An Outreach Project for High School Teachers Using a Cell Phone Programming Tool

Catherine Lang; Sharmini Thurairasa

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 4712–4718

This paper describes the development and delivery of an outreach program that targeted secondary school Information Technology (IT) teachers. Like many westernised nations Australia has also seen a dramatic decline in school student interest and...

The Importance of Outreach Programs to Unblock the Pipeline and Broaden Diversity in ICT Education

Catherine Lang; Annemieke Craig; MaryAnne Egan

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education Vol. 12, No. 1 (January 2016) pp. 38–49

There is a need for outreach programs to attract a diverse range of students to the computing discipline. The lack of qualified computing graduates to fill the growing number of computing vacancies is of concern to government and industry and there...

A pedagogy for outreach activities in ICT: Promoting peer to peer learning, creativity and experimentation

Catherine Lang; Annemieke Craig; Gail Casey

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 48, No. 6 (November 2017) pp. 1491–1501

The importance of integrating technology into the classroom has become a priority at most levels of the curriculum in many countries around the world. This paper draws on the evaluation and research that informed four outreach programs. The authors...

Twenty Years of Girls into Computing Days: Has It Been Worth the Effort?

Annemieke Craig; Catherine Lang; Julie Fisher

Journal of Information Technology Education: Research Vol. 7, No. 1 (Jan 01, 2008) pp. 339–353

The first documented day-long program to encourage girls to consider computing as a career was held in 1987 in the U.K. Over the last 20 years these one-day events, labeled Girls into Computing days, have been conducted by academics and...

Social Media Challenges and Affordances for International Students: Bridges, Boundaries, and Hybrid Spaces

Jade Sleeman; Catherine Lang; Narelle Lemon

Journal of Studies in International Education Vol. 20, No. 5 (2016) pp. 391–415

Many higher education institutions around the world are increasingly motivated to incorporate social media for pedagogical benefit. At the same time, many institutions are also attracting an ever-growing number of students from overseas countries....

Cooperative vs collaborative group work: educational use of social media and social connection for international students

Jade Sleeman; Catherine Lang; Eva Dakich

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 244–249

Group work is often employed in educational contexts for social learning benefits, such as co-construction of knowledge, as well as facilitating social connections within the classroom (C-M Zhao & Kuh, 2004) For international students, the social...

Topics: social networks, Collaborative technologies

Twenty Years of Girls into Computing Days: Has It Been Worth the Effort?

Annemieke Craig; Catherine Lang; Julie Fisher

Journal of Information Technology Education: Research Vol. 7 (2008) pp. 339–353

The first documented day-long program to encourage girls to consider computing as a career was held in 1987 in the U.K. Over the last 20 years these one-day events, labeled Girls into Computing days, have been conducted by academics and...