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Effective feedback gives students the information they actually use to increase their learning and improve their performance. It should employ a “growth mindset” that focuses on developing intelligence through effort, practice, and “wise feedback” that…

These four self-guided lessons will prepare you to teach young people about computing in a fun and engaging way. Based on the Computational Textiles Curriculum and Sew Electric from MIT, e-Textiles-in-a-Box provides instructions for sewing…

Are your job descriptions unintentionally narrowing your candidate pool and causing you to miss out on highly qualified professionals? Subtle assumptions about who traditionally does a job, the language used, or an over-emphasis on unnecessary…

This report, sponsored by NCWIT’s Workforce Alliance, provides an inside look into how men think about and advocate for diversity in the technical workplace. Drawing from interviews with 47 men in technical companies and departments,…

Introduce students to computer science through AgentCubes, a powerful and engaging 2-D and 3-D programming tool. By completing the lessons in this program-in-a-box, your middle school students will learn to program their own games and…

Girls in IT: The Facts, sponsored by NCWIT’s K-12 Alliance, is a synthesis of the existing literature on increasing girls’ participation in computing. It aims to bring together this research so that readers can gain…

This resource includes ten recommendations managers can readily adopt to help all employees unlock their full potential, thereby improving retention and boosting team performance.  These strategies are particularly useful for retaining employees who may not…

Many factors at work affect how visible employees are and how valuable they are perceived to be–and many of these factors are unrelated to technical skill. For example, tech employees in one NCWIT study pointed…

Supervising-in-a-Box Series: Supervisors as Change Agents is for managers who wish to become change agents in their organizations. The materials are focused on actions that you as an individual manager can take to raise awareness…

Supervising-in-a-Box: Performance Review/Talent Management provides supervisors with resources for reducing biases in performance evaluation and talent management systems. This “Box” includes tip sheets, resources for identifying and reducing biases, templates, evaluation tools, key takeaways, and…

Supervising-in-a-Box helps managers establish supportive and effective relationships with all employees. This box explores ways to reduce or remove unconscious bias, discriminatory practices, and institutional barriers while performing managerial job functions – including recruitment, project…

Pair programming is a collaborative learning method in which students program in pairs instead of individually. This approach significantly improves college students’ programming competency and increases the likelihood thatstudents become and remain computer science majors….

To inspire action and build support for their initiatives, change leaders must craft intentional, compelling messages throughout the organizational change process. This free resource provides communication strategies specifically designed to help ensure the success of…

This paper describes an exploratory study to identify which environmental and student factors best predict intention to persist in the computer science major. The findings can be used to make decisions about initiatives for increasing…