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Determining students' intent to stay in it programs: an empirical model

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Tracy L. Lewis,

Wanda J. Smith,

France Bélanger,

K. Vernard HarringtonAuthors Info & Claims

SIGMIS CPR '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel doctoral consortium and research

Pages 5 - 11

https://doi.org/10.1145/1355238.1355241

Published: 03 April 2008 Publication History

Abstract

Current declining enrollment and attrition trends in IT programs have inspired an emerging body of literature: IT student retention. To shed some insight on whom leaves and stays in IT programs, the authors developed a new construct, computing resilience, and explored its influence on intent to stay and emotional intelligence. This study also investigated the linkage between ethnic identity, emotional intelligence, and IT student intent to stay. It was found that ethnic identity and computing resilience influence student retention through emotional intelligence. Implications for these findings for IT faculty, students, and administrators are discussed.

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Krasteva SNiederman F(2013)Computer PersonnelProceedings of the 2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences10.1109/HICSS.2013.141(4105-4114)Online publication date: 7-Jan-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/HICSS.2013.141
Lewis TSmith WBélanger FHarrington KCaspersen MLister RClancy M(2008)Are technical and soft skills required?Proceedings of the Fourth international Workshop on Computing Education Research10.1145/1404520.1404530(91-100)Online publication date: 6-Sep-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1404520.1404530

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Determining students' intent to stay in it programs: an empirical model
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information systems education

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Laliberté Durish CYeates KBrooks B(2018)Convergent and divergent validity of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale in children with concussion and orthopaedic injuryBrain Injury10.1080/02699052.2018.150247132:12(1525-1533)Online publication date: 26-Jul-2018
https://doi.org/10.1080/02699052.2018.1502471
Krasteva SNiederman F(2013)Computer PersonnelProceedings of the 2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences10.1109/HICSS.2013.141(4105-4114)Online publication date: 7-Jan-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/HICSS.2013.141
Lewis TSmith WBélanger FHarrington KCaspersen MLister RClancy M(2008)Are technical and soft skills required?Proceedings of the Fourth international Workshop on Computing Education Research10.1145/1404520.1404530(91-100)Online publication date: 6-Sep-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1404520.1404530

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