Much research has been conducted on barriers to attracting and retaining women in undergraduate computing programs. Below is a list of practices suggested by research to increase participation of women, followed by NCWIT Social Science Advisory Board white papers.

• Peer-Led Team Learning: Retaining women through collaborative learning NEW!
• Storytelling: An engaging way to introduce computing NEW!
• Unplugged: An engaging way to introduce computing NEW!
• Teaching Programming and Language Concepts Using LEGOS: An engaging way to introduce computing concepts
• Faculty Perspectives: Using REUs to retain female undergraduates
• Pair Programming: Retaining women through collaborative learning
• Media Computation at Georgia Tech: Attracting students through an engaging introductory computing curriculum
• The Conversational Classroom: Retaining women through inclusive pedagogy
• Designing for Diversity: Recruiting women through inclusive pedagogy
• MentorNet: An example of effective electronic mentoring
• Girls Exploring Science, Engineering, and Technology (GESET): Targeted recruitment of women and girls into IT
• Regional Celebrations of Women in Computing (R-CWIC): An example of intentional role modeling
• "Top 10 Ideas for Involving More Women in Computing - Academic Version"
• "The Category of 'Girl' with Respect to Technology"
• "The Goal of 'Parity' in Information Technology"
• "Transitions in the Gender Role of Historical Occupations: The Role of Cultural Forces"

NCWIT Survey-in-a-Box: Student Experience of the Major
NCWIT's Survey-in-a-Box: Student Experience of the Major is a set of resources for assessing, interpreting, and improving the climate of undergraduate computing departments to improve retention of and increase enrollment by all students. Visit our Survey-in-a-Box page to read more or download this resource.