Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Ilmi Yoon, San Francisco State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Diversity Research

[30,31] at its core, has commented on how radical it was to see women in the fieldbeen developed for the matching problem. A functional of Computer Science.”prototype has also been designed for a web application. B. Student self-reflection CS knowledge surveyFluotify: The goal of this project is to develop a cell We have surveyed PINC students’ self-reflection ontracking program for 3D images of tissue samples. Such a content knowledge. Even though we observed studentsprogram can drastically improve our understanding of cell

Conference Session

Diversity Research - Session I

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Jacklin Stonewall, Iowa State University; Michael Dorneich, Iowa State University; Cassandra Dorius; Jane Rongerude PhD, Iowa State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Diversity Research

, negatively impact the instructors [10]. Assessments can foster the development ofway people perceive members of disadvantaged groups. autonomy and maturity, as well as improve social andUnfortunately, biases often extend into the classroom professional skills [11]. The process also encourages self-environment [1], [2]. In one academic year, 38% of professors reflection and deeper understanding of the material, whichsurveyed perceived an act of bias in their classes [2]. In small may lead to improved retention and confidence [12]. Givengroup learning classrooms, these biases have been shown to the increasing prevalence of small group learning and amanifest in many ways

Conference Session

Diversity Research - Session I

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Donna M. Riley, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Diversity Research

suggestion of bias againstunderrepresented groups in STEM fields (for which there is ample evidence in the literature) isdismissed, mocked, or met with shock and outrage. STEM diversity researchers, often insiders toSTEM themselves, are misrepresented as outsiders launching attacks on STEM itself.Rochelle Gutiérrez, 19 in a commentary on her own experience of alt-right harassment, reflects onthe positionality of the math education community in relation to rightwing attacks on diversityscholarship in the academy. She notes that she herself had been publishing without backlash fornearly two decades, specifically calling out White supremacist capitalist patriarchy, building onfive decades of math equity scholarship in her discipline. She asks, why now