Intersectionality and Black Undergraduate Women in Computing: A Critical Quantitative Approach to Measurement Development (Poster 17)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Sunday 9:50 a.m.
  In Poster Session: Emerging Methods in Measurement and Assessment in Higher Education

Abstract

There is a need to bolster pathways into STEM professions, with an emphasis on institutions of higher education to expand opportunities to populations that have been historically excluded. Despite the opportunities in computing, representation challenges remain—especially for Black women who may experience combined racial and gender-based oppression, resulting in a need to understand their experiences at these intersections. However, there is a gap in existing research concerning how to measure such experiences. Guided by intersectionality literature, this study takes a critical quantitative approach to measurement development by designing a scale to tap the intersectional experiences of Black undergraduate women (BUW) in computing and related fields within three domains—structural intersectionality, political intersectionality, and representational intersectionality.

Authors

• Krystal L. Williams, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• William B. Walker, University of Georgia

• Imani N. Callan, University of Georgia