Profile of Female Students in the Department of Computing at the University of Brasília

• Maristela Holanda UnB
• Marília Dantas UnB
• Gustavo Couto UnB
• Jan Mendonça Correa UnB
• Aleteia Patrícia F. de Araújo UnB
• Maria Emília T. Walter UnB

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wit.2017.3408

Abstract

This paper presents the profile of the students of the course of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Brasília. The profile is composed by analysis of the difference between the students (girls and boys) of the courses of Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Degree in Computing on the questions: entrance of the students; Reason for school dropout and academic grades.

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