TY - GEN
T1 - A Methodology for Investigating Women's Module Choices in Computer Science
AU - Bradley, Steven
AU - Parker, Miranda C.
AU - Altin, Rukiye
AU - Barker, Lecia
AU - Hooshangi, Sara
AU - Kamal, Samia
AU - Kunkeler, Thom
AU - Lennon, Ruth G.
AU - McNeill, Fiona
AU - Minguillón, Julià
AU - Parkinson, Jack
AU - Peltsverger, Svetlana
AU - Sibia, Naaz
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Owner/Author.
PY - 2023/6/29
Y1 - 2023/6/29
N2 - At ITiCSE 2021, Working Group 3 examined the evidence for teaching practices that broaden participation for women in computing, based on the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Engagement Practices framework. One of the report's recommendations was "Make connections from computing to your students' lives and interests (Make it Matter) but don't assume you know what those interests are; find out! "The goal of this 2023 working group is to find out what interests women students by bringing together data from our institutions on undergraduate module enrollment, seeing how they differ for women and men, and what drives those choices. We will code published module content based on ACM curriculum guidelines and combine these data to build a hierarchical statistical model of factors affecting student choice. This model should be able to tell us how interesting or valuable different topics are to women, and to what extent topic affects choice of module - as opposed to other factors such as the instructor, the timetable, or the mode of assessment. Equipped with this knowledge we can advise departments how to focus curriculum development on areas that are of value to women, and hence work towards making the discipline more inclusive.
AB - At ITiCSE 2021, Working Group 3 examined the evidence for teaching practices that broaden participation for women in computing, based on the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Engagement Practices framework. One of the report's recommendations was "Make connections from computing to your students' lives and interests (Make it Matter) but don't assume you know what those interests are; find out! "The goal of this 2023 working group is to find out what interests women students by bringing together data from our institutions on undergraduate module enrollment, seeing how they differ for women and men, and what drives those choices. We will code published module content based on ACM curriculum guidelines and combine these data to build a hierarchical statistical model of factors affecting student choice. This model should be able to tell us how interesting or valuable different topics are to women, and to what extent topic affects choice of module - as opposed to other factors such as the instructor, the timetable, or the mode of assessment. Equipped with this knowledge we can advise departments how to focus curriculum development on areas that are of value to women, and hence work towards making the discipline more inclusive.
KW - computing education
KW - curriculum
KW - inclusion
KW - women
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85166330037&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3587103.3594209
DO - 10.1145/3587103.3594209
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85166330037
T3 - Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE
SP - 569
EP - 570
BT - ITiCSE 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 28th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2023
Y2 - 8 July 2023 through 12 July 2023
ER -