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Does a computer have sexual preferences?

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At the University of Guelph there has been a single significant introductory computer science course. Approximately 50% of the University's full time undergraduate students have taken this course during their academic career. Sectioning and enrollment has generally been done without regard to academic program or semester in school.

An examination of the past two years' results was performed utilizing the records of 1,350 students. Negligible correlations were found between a student's sex, academic program or semester in school when posed against the students' grades (both final and by grade component). All three results are contrary to the normal implicit assumptions regarding competitiveness between sexes, academic programs and student experience in a computer science course.

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  1. 1 L.J. Mazlack, "Compatibility of Students from Different Disciplines and Semesters", IFIP Conference on Education, August, 1975.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar

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            cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
            ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 8, Issue 1
            Proceedings of the SIGCSE-SIGCUE joint symposium on Computer science education
            February 1976
            399 pages
            ISSN:0097-8418
            DOI:10.1145/952989
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              SIGCSE '76: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE-SIGCUE technical symposium on Computer science and education
              February 1976
              403 pages
              ISBN:9781450374125
              DOI:10.1145/800107

            Copyright © 1976 ACM

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