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        • Evergreen Valley College Increases Retention of both Female and Male Automotive Students by over 25%
        • Las Positas College Increase Female Students in Welding and Automotive Technology from 5% to 14%; Retention Increases to 94%
        • Women Increase from 18 to 30% of City College of San Francisco's Computer Networking and Information Technology Program
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        • CalWomenTech Project: Increasing Recruitment & Retention of Female College Students in Technology Courses
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        • Increasing Opportunities for Low-Income Women and Student Parents in STEM at Community Colleges
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        • Broadening Participation in STEM Programs through LSAMP
        • Effectively Assign Student Groups by Applying Multiple User-prioritized Academic and Demographic Factors Using a New Open Source Program, GroupEng
        • Enabling Engineering Student Success: The Final Report for the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education
        • Engaging Men in Gender Initiatives: What Change Agents Need to Know
        • How Do You Retain Women through Collaborative Learning? Pair Programming (Case Study 1)
        • The Influence of the Teacher’s Sex on High School Students' Engagement and Achievement in Science
        • Keeping College Women in STEM Fields
        • The Need for Female Role Models in Engineering Education
        • Turning Limited Resources into Increased Recruitment & Retention of Female Students in Technology Programs
        • Pair Programming Improves Student Retention, Confidence, and Program Quality
        • Achieving Gender Equity in Science Classrooms: A Guide for Faculty
        • A Cross-Institutional Comparison of Elements of College Culture That Promote Women's Interest in Engineering at the Undergraduate Level
        • Developing Male Allies in Your Male-Dominated Field
        • Final Report of the Women's Experiences in College Engineering (WECE) Project
        • A Guaranteed 4.0 Female Retention Strategy: The Guaranteed 4.0 Learning System
        • High School Automotive Teacher Has Continued Success Recruiting and Retaining Girls
        • How to Develop and Market a Career Development Course to Recruit Women in Technology Related Classes
        • A Longitudinal Study of Engineering Student Performance and Retention
        • A Longitudinal Study of Undergraduate Women in Engineering and Science
        • Recruiting and Retaining Women in Undergraduate Computing Majors
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        • Sundials in the Shade: A Study of Women's Persistence in the First Year of a Computer Science Program at a Selective University
        • Open Lab Time as a Strategy to Increase Female (and Male) Retention
        • TWiCE Undergraduate Experience in Research and Community Service
        • Teaching Spatial Reasoning to Improve Retention of Women in Technology
        • Voices of Young Women in Engineering
        • Evergreen Valley College Increases Retention of both Female and Male Automotive Students by over 25%
        • Las Positas College Increase Female Students in Welding and Automotive Technology from 5% to 14%; Retention Increases to 94%
        • Women Increase from 18 to 30% of City College of San Francisco's Computer Networking and Information Technology Program
        • Women Now Nearly Half of San Diego Mesa Community College's Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Program
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        • Gender Differences in Confidence Levels, Group Interactions, and Feelings About Competition in an Introductory Robotics Course
        • Maximizing Retention for At-Risk Freshmen: The Bronx Community College Model
        • The WISE Summer Bridge Program: Assessing Student Attrition, Retention, and Program Effectiveness
      • Curriculum
        • Research and Evaluation Results for the Engineering is Elementary Project: An Executive Summary of the First Eight Years
        • Women in CS @ HMC: Three Promising Practices
        • Engineering Education: How to Design a Gender-Inclusive Curriculum
        • Gender and Science Learning Early in High School: Subject Matter and Laboratory Experiences
        • K-12 and University Collaboration: A Vehicle to Improve Curriculum and Female Enrollment in Engineering and Technology
        • The Maui County High School Technology Survey
        • Alice v2.0, Learn to Program Interactive 3D Graphics
        • Model Eliciting Activities: An In-Class Approach to Improving Interest and Persistence of Women in Engineering
        • Retaining Women in First Year CS Courses
      • Informal Learning
        • Alice v2.0, Learn to Program Interactive 3D Graphics
        • High School Girls Use PicoCrickets to Learn Programming Skills
      • Lab/Team Work
        • Effectively Assign Student Groups by Applying Multiple User-prioritized Academic and Demographic Factors Using a New Open Source Program, GroupEng
        • How Do You Retain Women through Collaborative Learning? Pair Programming (Case Study 1)
        • Pair Programming Improves Student Retention, Confidence, and Program Quality
      • Learning Style
        • Enabling Engineering Student Success: The Final Report for the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education
        • How Do You Retain Women through Collaborative Learning? Pair Programming (Case Study 1)
        • Can Gender-Adapted Instruction Improve Mathematics Performance and Attitudes?
        • Gender Difference in Learning Style Specific to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)
        • Gender Equity for Mathematics and Science: Notes on Invited Faculty Presentations
        • A Gendered World: Students and Instructional Technologies
        • How do Male and Female Students Approach Learning at NUS?
        • Learning Goals and Styles by Gender -- A Study of NUS Students
      • Literature Review
        • Increasing Opportunities for Low-Income Women and Student Parents in STEM at Community Colleges
        • Spatial Skills: A Focus on Gender and Engineering
        • To Recruit and Advance: Women Students and Faculty in Science and Engineering
        • Gender Differences in Learning and Achievement in Mathematics, Science and Technology and Strategies for Equity: A Literature Review
        • Women in Engineering: A Review of the 2008 Literature
      • Problem Solving
        • Problem-Solving Resources for Community Colleges: An Annotated Bibliography
      • Spatial Reasoning
        • ENGAGE Strategy Research Brief Spatial Visualization Skills
        • Spatial Skills: A Focus on Gender and Engineering
        • Spatial Visualization Skills Teaching Resources
        • Alphatome -- Enhancing Spatial Reasoning
        • Effects of Video Game Playing on Measures of Spatial Performance
        • Gender Differences in Spatial Reasoning Skills and their Effects on Success
        • Identifying Gender Differences in the 3-D Visualization Skills of Engineering Students in Brazil and in the United States
        • Learning Style-Based Innovations to Improve Retention of Female Engineering Students
        • Maximizing Retention for At-Risk Freshmen: The Bronx Community College Model
        • Playing an Action Video Game Reduces Gender Differences in Spatial Cognition
        • A Plea for Spatial Literacy
        • Spatial Ability Development in the Geosciences
        • Teaching Spatial Reasoning to Improve Retention of Women in Technology
      • Student Support
        • The Need for Female Role Models in Engineering Education
        • Prospecting for Gold: Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Students in Emerging Technologies
        • Evolution of a Cross-year Mentoring Scheme
        • The Center for Women & Information Technology: Mentoring Tool Kit
        • Gender-Informed Mentoring Strategies for Women Engineering Scholars: On Establishing a Caring Community
        • Maximizing Retention for At-Risk Freshmen: The Bronx Community College Model
        • Open Lab Time as a Strategy to Increase Female (and Male) Retention
        • Planning Role Model Visits and Field Trips to Inspire Girls in Technology, Science and Engineering
        • Retaining Undergraduate Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology: A Survey of a Student Organization
      • Women and Games
        • Gender in Gaming Portal Connects Educators and Video Game Developers
        • What Kind of Educational Computer Games Would Girls Like?
        • High School Girls Use PicoCrickets to Learn Programming Skills
        • Zoombinis and the Art of Mathematical Play
      • Women and Math
        • Coping with Mathematics Anxiety: Guidelines for College Students and Faculty
        • Gender and Mathematics: What is Known and What do I Wish was Known?
        • Can Gender-Adapted Instruction Improve Mathematics Performance and Attitudes?
        • The Effects of a Four Week Summer Bridge Program
        • Gender Equity for Mathematics and Science: Notes on Invited Faculty Presentations
        • How do Male and Female Students Approach Learning at NUS?
        • What Kind of Educational Computer Games Would Girls Like?
        • The WISE Summer Bridge Program: Assessing Student Attrition, Retention, and Program Effectiveness
        • Zoombinis and the Art of Mathematical Play
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        • Evergreen Valley College Increases Retention of both Female and Male Automotive Students; Increases Recruitment of Women by 45%
        • Las Positas College Increase Female Students in Welding and Automotive Technology from 5% to 14%; Retention Increases to 93%
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