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Broadening Participation in Computing: Putting Our Work in Context

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Broadening the participation of women in computing has increasingly become a focus of computing education research over the past several years. To be sure, the field of computing has unique challenges that merit close examination. At the same time, social scientists have built large bodies of literature related to gender equity across disciplines that span several decades, much of it critical to how we understand (in)equity in computing. This panel will provide perspectives from scholars with expertise in a variety of disciplines, including computer science, higher education, and educational psychology. Panelists will share relevant research from their home disciplines and initiate a discussion on the future of computing education research.

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      SIGCSE '19: Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
      February 2019
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      ISBN:9781450358903
      DOI:10.1145/3287324
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      1. broadening participation
      2. computing majors
      3. gender equity
      4. higher education
      5. interdisciplinary

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