From beliefs to intention

Abstract

We present the mentoring program make IT which was designed to motivate female high school students to study computer science. The measures of the program address different factors which have been shown to hinder a decision of girls to study a STEM1 subject. First empirical results of a mainly qualitative evaluation of the program show that the program is rather promising. To gain deeper insights in the respective effects of the different components of our program, we developed a questionnaire based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). In this way, we want to provide a theoretical foundation to the positive evaluation we gained for this project starting in practice. We instantiated the TPB to reveal the impact of make IT on attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control and, in consequence, the impact of these constituents on the intention to enrol in a CS program.

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