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Tiêu đề

Representation of women in CS: How do we measure a program's success?

Tác giả

Richards B.

Năm xuất bản

2009

Source title

SIGCSE'09 - Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Số trích dẫn

DOI

10.1145/1508865.1508901

Liên kết

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77956201414&doi=10.1145%2f1508865.1508901&partnerID=40&md5=f6bb3ebd087eae8f64a4b40036fc7b12

Tóm tắt

This paper presents an analysis of the data on representation of women in US liberal arts computer science departments, using 10 years' worth of IPEDS data. What began as a search for departments with exemplary representation ended with the conclusion that the representation data is too unstable to be a useful measure of success: The correlation between average representation values in consecutive five-year periods is small, only r=0.156, and not significantly different from zero (p=0.143, t=1.477) for this set of institutions. Other metrics and sample populations are considered with similar results. This result has important implications for studies assessing the impact of departmental interventions on the representation of women, as well as research on the factors that influence representation. © 2009 ACM.

Từ khóa

Correlation; Representation; Undergraduate education; Women in computing

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