@inproceedings{5ae7d7b7c6fb46b68655a0fbe4e10944,
title = "Women catch up: Gender differences in learning programming concepts",
abstract = "This paper describes a multi-institutional study that used categorization exercises (known as constrained card sorts) to investigate gender differences in graduating computer science students' learning and perceptions of programming concepts. Our results show that female subjects had significantly less pre-college programming experience than their male counterparts. However, for both males and females, we found no correlation between previous experience and success in the major, as measured by computer science grade point average at graduation. Data also indicated that, by the time students completed their introductory courses, females reported nearly equal levels of mastery as males of the programming concepts. Furthermore, females generally considered the programming concepts to be no more difficult than did the men.",
keywords = "Card sort, Gender differences, Programming experience",
author = "Laurie Murphy and Brad Richards and Ren{\'e}e McCauley and Morrison, {Briana B.} and Suzanne Westbrook and Timothy Fossum",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1145/1121341.1121350",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781595932594",
series = "Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education",
pages = "17--21",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education",
note = "37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education ; Conference date: 01-03-2006 Through 05-03-2006",
}