Rebecca Vivian
ABSTRACT
This special session is based around key findings of a Barbara Cail STEM Fellowship that aims to inform key stakeholders about international best practices for broadening participation and diversity in computer science. This special session provides opportunities for the audience to contribute to this research discussion and to analyse and develop strategies for their own unique contexts, in a facilitated approach using the benchmark framework and key findings.
- Balanskat, A. & Engelhardt, K. 2015. Computer Programming and Coding: Priorities, School Curricula and Initiatives Across Europe, European Schoolnet, Available at: http://fcl.eun.org/documents/10180/14689/Computing+our+future_final.pdf/746e36b1-e1a6--4bf1--8105-ea27c0d2bbe0Google Scholar
- Frieze, C & Quesenberry, J. 2015. Kicking Butt in Computer Science: Women in Computing at Carnegie Mellon University, Dog Ear Publishing: Indianapolis, United States.Google Scholar
- Informatics Europe & ACM Europe Working Group on Informatics Education. 2013. Informatics education: Europe Cannot Afford to Miss the Boat, Available at: www.informatics-europe.org/images/documents/informatics-education-acm-ie.pdfGoogle Scholar
- Marginson, S., Tytler, R., Freeman, B. 2013. STEM: Country Comparisons, Report for the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA), Available at: www.acola.org.au/PDF/SAF02Consultants/SAF02_STEM_%20FINAL.pdfGoogle Scholar
- Wang, J., Hong, H., Ravitz, J. & Ivory, M. 2015. Gender Differences in Factors Influencing Pursuit of Computer Science and Related Fields. Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 117--122. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Wilson, C., Sudol, L. A., Stephenson, C. & Stehlik, M. 2010. Running on Empty: The Failure to Teach K-12 Computer Science in the Digital Age. The Association for Computing Machinery & The Computer Science Teachers Association, Available at: http://runningonempty.acm.org/fullreport2.pdfGoogle Scholar
Index Terms
- Broadening Participation in Computer Science: Key Strategies from International Findings
Recommendations
Students’ Experience of Participation in a Discipline—A Longitudinal Study of Computer Science and IT Engineering Students
This article concludes a longitudinal study with the broader aim to explore learner development as a long-term, social process. One goal has been to inform the endeavours of improving student engagement, retention, as well as under-representation of ...
Bringing Grades K-5 to the Mainstream of Computer Science Education
SIGCSE '15: Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science EducationAs awareness of computer science education grows in the general public, it is important to showcase computer science education as accessible for all grades K-12 and beyond. As panelists present the projects and research they've been conducting, we will ...
INSPIRED broadening participation: first year experience and lessons learned
ITiCSE '09: Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science educationThe Increasing Student Participation in Research Development Program ('INSPIRED') is designed to increase participation of women and underrepresented minorities in computing. It is a comprehensive program whose goals are to attract, retain and ...
Comments