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

for Engineering Education, 2021 Raising Algorithm Bias Awareness among Computer Science Students through Library and Computer Science InstructionAbstractWe are a computer science professor and two librarians who work closely with computer sciencestudents. In this paper, we outline the development of an introductory algorithm bias instructionsession. As part of our lesson development, we analyzed the results of a survey we conducted ofcomputer science students at three universities on their perceptions about search-engine andbig-data algorithms. We examined whether an information literacy component focused onalgorithmic bias was