Computing Educational Activities Involving People Rather Than Things Appeal More to Women (Recruitment Perspective)

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In this episode I unpack Christensen et al.’s (2021) publication titled “Computing educational activities involving people rather than things appeal more to women (recruitment perspective),” which investigated the preferences of high school males and females for computing educational activities with people or things.

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00:00 Intro

00:35 Abstract

02:20 My single sentence summary

02:58 Paper introduction

04:06 Design

05:41 Results

08:07 Internal and external threats to validity

08:29 Conclusion

08:41 Lingering questions and thoughts

08:50 If the authors from this paper were to engage in a discussion with the authors from the unpacking scholarship episode I did on the paper titled “Eliminating Gender Bias in Computer Science Education Materials,” what would they say?

11:34 Outro