Exploring the Associations Among Being Self-Conscious About Social Identities, Interaction Patterns With Faculty, and Computing Identity in Computing Classrooms (Poster 26)

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Abstract

We analyzed data collected from an online survey administered to 37,662 first- and second-year undergraduates enrolled in computing courses at 16 research universities to examine the associations among feeling self-conscious about social identities (e.g., race/ethnicity, accents, citizenship, and gender), interaction patterns with faculty in computing courses, and computing identity in computing courses. Our findings affirm the presence of differences among undergraduate students' interactive experiences with faculty due to their social identities and their feeling about those identities. Also, we found that computing identity is associated with students’ reflections on the computing courses, along with being self-conscious about their backgrounds and interaction with faculty.

Authors

• HyeJin Tina Yeo, University of California - Los Angeles

• Maeve Lohnes, American Institutes for Research