Caring about connections: gender and computing

Margolis, Jane; Fisher, Allan L.; Miller, Faye

doi:10.1109/44.808844

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“…Female students generally dislike a myopic focus on the machine that detaches them from people [2]. A longitudinal study carried out at Carnegie Mellon University [2] revealed that male students are interested in "figuring out how it works", while female students attribute their interest in computer science to a larger societal framework.…”

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Towards increasing the compatibility of student pair programmers

Katira

Williams

Osborne

2005

Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Software Engineering - ICSE '05

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As pair programming is used widely in software engineering education, instructors may wish to proactively form pairs to increase the likelihood of compatible pairs. A study involving 361 software engineering students was carried out at North Carolina State University to understand and predict pair compatibility. We have found that students are compatible with partners whom they perceive of similar skill, although instructors cannot proactively manage this perception. Pairing of two minority students is more likely and mixed gender pairs are less likely to be compatible. Additionally, pairing of students with similar actual skill level as measured by midterm grades in class, GPA, and SAT/GRE scores also likely results in compatible pairs. Our research addresses the following challenges faced by instructors in software engineering: 1) organizational concern in pairing of students; 2) increasing the retention rates of female and minority students in classes; and 3) proactively forming mutually-compatible pairs.

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Towards increasing the compatibility of student pair programmers

Katira

Williams

Osborne

2005

Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Software Engineering - ICSE '05

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“…Since 1990, research has focused on several causes of female attrition, including (but not limited to) gender bias and stereotyping (Margolis et al, 1999;Spertus, 1991), attitudes towards computing (Charlton & Birkett, 1998;Shashaani, 1997), prior computing experience (Bunderson & Christensen, 1995;Fan et al, 1998;Taylor & Mounfield, 1994), motivation (Charlton & Birkett, 1999), confidence , disciplinary characteristics (Mahony & Van Toen, 1990;Pearl et al, 2002), and departmental characteristics (Cohoon, 2001;2002) including the "culture of computing" at particular institutions (Bunderson & Christensen, 1995;Margolis & Fisher, 2002). Because most studies have found that women perform equally as well or better than men in undergraduate CS programs, little attention has been paid to the relationship between achievement and persistence.…”

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Gender, achievement, and persistence in an undergraduate computer science program

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“…Since this trend is unique to computing, it is important to understand the factors behind the decrease. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University [3,5] are conducting a very interesting longitudinal study of female and male CS majors to investigate gender differences in student preparation for, experiences in, and orientations towards studying CS. During the last decade, however, there has been little data gathered on secondary school students' perceptions of computer-related subjects and careers.…”

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Gender Differences in Vancouver Secondary Students

Chan

Stafford

Klawe

et al. 2000

Women, Work and Computerization

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Abstract:This paper presents results from a survey of Vancouver secondary school students on their interests and perceived abilities in a range of subjects, the factors they felt would influence their career choices, and a number of issues related to computer use and perceptions of computer professionals. Females indicated substantially lower interest and perceived ability than males in three subjects, namely computer science, engineering and physics. Females also reported spending less time on most forms of computer activities at school and at home, and gave lower estimates of their computer skills. The survey also revealed that both male and female students have little knowledge of the skills and personality characteristics needed for success in information technology careers. These findings may help explain the low participation of women in information technology areas in university and the work force.

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Caring about connections: gender and computing

Cited by 63 publications

References 6 publications

Towards increasing the compatibility of student pair programmers

Towards increasing the compatibility of student pair programmers

Gender, achievement, and persistence in an undergraduate computer science program

Gender Differences in Vancouver Secondary Students

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