“Participating Under the Influence”: How Role Models Affect the Computing Discipline, Profession, and Student Population

Grande, Virginia; Peters, Anne-Kathrin; Daniels, Mats; Tedre, Matti

doi:10.1109/fie.2018.8658944

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“…The other roles have a proportion of 45/55, which is marginally more female researchers than in the author list, and again is not statistically significant. This potentially supports the attainability of role models, described in [20], but may not provide the senior support for different voices described in [21] as necessary to support diverse communities.…”

Section: Shaking the Tree: Historic And Future Representation Of Womementioning

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Shaking the Tree

McKay

Buchanan

2019

Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction

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Gender equity is an issue of increasing importance in the technology industry generally and HCI specifically. Women are historically underrepresented at all levels, but moreso in senior roles; conversely visible senior women increase female participation generally. In this paper we present the first scientometric analysis of OzCHI examining the interaction between gender and role seniority, showing that overall female representation is quite good, but we need to be cautious to preserve it. This is the first analysis of this type to examine the issue of gender in any HCI venue. CCS CONCEPTS • Social and professional topics~Gender • Social and professional topics~Industry statistics • Social and professional topics~Employment issues • Human-centered computing ~Human computer interaction (HCI)

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Section: Shaking the Tree: Historic And Future Representation Of Womementioning

confidence: 94%

Shaking the Tree

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Buchanan

2019

Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction

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“…Can a teacher learn from a student? In a study of role models as a reflection on ways to engage in computing [12], we have seen how students can have other students as role models, and not only professionals who are older and more experienced. Role models may be perceived as more experienced, regardless of their age and actual level of knowledge in the area.…”

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“…The definition of these four combinations is the result of considering the literature, mainly about who potential role models for engineering students are, and our work on ways of engaging in computing available through role models in computing education [12]. We claim that it is important to better emphasize the diversity in engineering, by highlighting different backgrounds, such as the developer's mentioned in this section) and what is valued -or not-in the community, such as grit.…”

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Lost for Words! Defining the Language Around Role Models in Engineering Education

Grande

2018

2018 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)

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This full research paper contains a vocabulary to describe role modeling in engineering education. The term role model is widely used in the literature, particularly in broadening participation. However, it is loosely defined. Both its everyday and academic use varies. This was also observed during our interviews with teachers in the discipline: there was no consensus on what a role model is nor on the meaning of adjectives used to describe a role model. Considering the benefits of role models and the need for terminology that supports a common understanding of role modeling, we have developed a vocabulary around this phenomenon. We aim to support educators by providing them with a means to reflect on different dimensions of role modeling. We define what a role model in engineering is, and what they may model: an aspect (a competency, a character attribute or an attitude) or an achievement. Main actors and types of awareness and intention of the modeling are covered, as well as how the modeling may be perceived by others. We indicate differences and overlaps with terms such as mentor. Finally, we discuss challenges due to subjectiveness: who defines the norm for what an ideal professional in engineering is?

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“…For example, we envision these factors to be present in reasons for why teachers model certain aspects, or what may support or hinder role modeling in a socio-cultural teaching context. Social and cultural contexts affect who is recognized as a role model, and who may not [7]. We ask: what opportunities and challenges for role modeling do teachers identify?…”

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Making Visible and Modeling the Underrepresented

Grande

Kinnunen

Peters

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Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Vol. 2

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This work contributes to understanding of computing teachers' perceptions of themselves as role models. Role models are described as important to address under-representation, yet there is little indepth research on how role modeling works and what university teachers in computing can model to broaden participation in the discipline.In this paper we analyze teachers' reflections on how they may, or want to, be perceived by their students, particularly in terms of professional competencies, emotions and attitudes towards wellbeing. We use and further develop an already existing framework on role modeling in computing, and we relate our findings to existing research on computing and science identities. Modeling aspects outside the computing norm can help provide students with a wider notion of what it means to be a computer scientist.Besides developing the theoretical understanding of computing teachers as role models, our work supports various ways of developing computing teachers' competences and departments' teaching culture. The results are one way to contribute to student diversity and equitable access, and more broadly increase the relevance of computing education for sustainability.

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“Participating Under the Influence”: How Role Models Affect the Computing Discipline, Profession, and Student Population

Cited by 21 publications

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