Lewis, A. N., & Minnes, M., & Vaccaro, K., & Politz, J. G. (2023, June), Taking the Next Course: Barriers and Facilitators Reported by Computer Science Majors  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--44398

\bibitem{asee_peer_44398}
  Lewis, A. N., \& Minnes, M., \& Vaccaro, K., \& Politz, J. G. (2023, June), \emph{Taking the Next Course: Barriers and Facilitators Reported by Computer Science Majors}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--44398

Amari N. Lewis, Mia Minnes, Kristen Vaccaro, and Joe Gibbs Politz.  "Taking the Next Course: Barriers and Facilitators Reported by Computer Science Majors".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/44398 Internet.  26 Jun, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_44398}
  Amari N. Lewis, Mia Minnes, Kristen Vaccaro, and Joe Gibbs Politz.
  "Taking the Next Course: Barriers and Facilitators Reported by Computer Science Majors".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/44398 Internet.  26 Jun, 2024

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AB  - This research paper studies barriers to students continuing in undergraduate computing programs. On the journey to a computing profession, every course has the potential to be an off-ramp away from students’ goals. Every student who leaves a computing degree has a last class they took before not continuing, and a reason they didn’t continue. Based on qualitative analysis of open-ended questions in surveys of students in eight undergraduate computer science and engineering (CSE) courses, we identify common barriers students anticipate, and learn what encourages them to persist onto the next CSE course. For example, even for students within the major, a commonly reported barrier was the perceived inability to enroll in their next computing course due to unclear enrollment systems and requirements. We disaggregate the data by three demographic categories—race/ethnicity, gender, and admissions-type—to understand potential disparate impacts of CSE majors at our large, research- intensive university. Solutions to the reported barriers faced by students may include student-focused interventions, policy and programmatic changes at the department level, and broader institutional or external support. Keywords: 5.b.vii. Computer science, 10.f. Retention, 3. Diversity
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