TY - JOUR
T1 - Surprising possibilities imagined and realized through information technology (SPIRIT)
T2 - 2009 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
AU - Munson, Ashlyn
AU - Moskal, Barbara
AU - Harriger, Alka
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - There has been a significant decline in the number of female students who are interested in pursuing majors in the fields of Information Technology (IT). Additionally, the supply of students educated in IT is less than the current employment demand. The primary goal of the SPIRIT program is to increase high school students' interests in IT through direct interventions and through secondary contact via high school teachers and guidance counselors. Selected high school students were invited to attend a summer workshop in 2008. Multiple forms of assessment, including pre and post assessments, attitudes measures and self-report, were used to evaluate the impact that the summer workshops had on participants' IT attitudes and performances. The qualitative and quantitative measures used in this investigation indicate that both the students' attitudes and performances improved from beginning to end of the one week summer workshop.
AB - There has been a significant decline in the number of female students who are interested in pursuing majors in the fields of Information Technology (IT). Additionally, the supply of students educated in IT is less than the current employment demand. The primary goal of the SPIRIT program is to increase high school students' interests in IT through direct interventions and through secondary contact via high school teachers and guidance counselors. Selected high school students were invited to attend a summer workshop in 2008. Multiple forms of assessment, including pre and post assessments, attitudes measures and self-report, were used to evaluate the impact that the summer workshops had on participants' IT attitudes and performances. The qualitative and quantitative measures used in this investigation indicate that both the students' attitudes and performances improved from beginning to end of the one week summer workshop.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85029039048&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85029039048
SN - 2153-5965
JO - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
JF - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
Y2 - 14 June 2009 through 17 June 2009
ER -