Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 1: Diversity

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shalini Ramachandran, Boise State University; Steven Matthew Cutchin, Boise State University; Sheree Fu, California State University, Los Angeles

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

responses from a range of computer science students from first year tograduate students. It should be mentioned that our study is not intended to be a completeformal quantitative investigation. Validation of the results with larger studies may berequired.The total number of raw data responses from all three institutions was 815. After cleaning theraw data to remove responses without signed consent, the total number of responses was 782.The full set of questions that were asked is included in Appendix A.Opinions of the respondents regarding the questions on search engine results and algorithm biaswere recorded in the form of a 7-point Likert scale ranging from “Strongly disagree” to“Strongly agree”. A sampling issue with the respondents was that