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Measuring the success of intervention programmes designed to increase the participation rate by women in computing

Craig, Annemieke, Dawson, Linda and Fisher, Julie 2009, Measuring the success of intervention programmes designed to increase the participation rate by women in computing, in ECIS 2009 : Proceedings of the 2009 European Conference on Information Systems : Information systems in a globalising world : challenges, ethics and practices, ECIS, Verona , Italy, pp. 1-13.

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Title Measuring the success of intervention programmes designed to increase the participation rate by women in computing
Author(s) Craig, Annemieke
Dawson, Linda
Fisher, Julie
Conference name European Conference on Information Systems (17th : 2009 : Verona, Italy)
Conference location Verona, Italy
Conference dates 8-10 June 2009
Title of proceedings ECIS 2009 : Proceedings of the 2009 European Conference on Information Systems : Information systems in a globalising world : challenges, ethics and practices
Editor(s) Newell, S.
Whitley, E.
Pouloudi, N.
Wareham, J.
Mathiassen, L.
Publication date 2009
Conference series European Conference on Information Systems
Start page 1
End page 13
Publisher ECIS
Place of publication Verona , Italy
Keyword(s) gender
computing
recruitment
intervention programmes
evaluation
Summary Many intervention programmes to encourage greater female participation in computer education and careers have been conducted in the last twenty years. These intervention programmes take considerable time, effort and money to design and implement. If success were to be measured by an increase in the percentage of female students undertaking computing courses then these programmes would have to be considered a failure. This paper describes a research project which examined fourteen intervention programmes in detail. From the perspective of the programme champions each of the intervention programmes was considered successful, even when this success was restricted to specific areas or limited to small groups of individuals. Formal evaluation appeared to have been an afterthought rather than a priority of many of the programme champions. Some programmes appeared to be less effective due to the lack of targeted and clear goals or predetermined evaluation criteria. It is recommended that during the initial planning phase for intervention programmes a clear objective is to consider what a successful programme would look like and what the evaluation criteria would be. Further work is needed to understand how intervention programmes can be better designed and evaluated so that their impact and success can be expanded.
Notes This paper is located on the 77th page in the attached link.
ISBN 9788861293915
Language eng
Field of Research 080699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Socio Economic Objective 899999 Information and Communication Services not elsewhere classified
HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed
Copyright notice ©2009, ECIS
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30022678

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