Conference Session

Track: Special Topic - Computing & Technology Technical Session I

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Mihaela Sabin, University of New Hampshire; Wendy DuBow, University of Colorado; Adrienne Ann Smith, Cynosure Consulting; Rosabel Deloge, Educational Consultant-Independent

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Special Topic: Computing & Technology

-post surveys, classroom and PD observations, pre-post teacher interviews,and follow-up-post teacher interviews. While there were modest gains in student confidence incomputing, with girls in one cohort increasing confidence significantly more than boys, thegreatest achievements of the project lay in the impact on teachers. The teachers learned newcomputing skills, gained confidence in computing, learned new pedagogical practices that theyimplemented in the classroom, and most continue to integrate project-based app development intheir courses. Significantly, two teachers shifted their careers to focus on equity issues incomputing and increasing participation of girls and other underrepresented groups in K-12education. Lessons learned by the

Conference Session

Track: Special Topic - Computing & Technology Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Elsa Q. Villa, University of Texas, El Paso; Sarah Hug, Colorado Evaluation & Research Consulting; Heather Thiry, Golden Evaluation ; David S. Knight, The University of Texas, El Paso; Elizabeth Fomby Hall, The University of Texas, El Paso; Andrea Tirres, University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Special Topic: Computing & Technology

% at public 4-year institutions while graduate degrees conferred wereless than 2% [3].To meet the challenge of increasing participation of Hispanics in computing, the ComputingAlliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI) was formed in 2004 with seven foundinginstitutions: California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), Florida InternationalUniversity (FIU), New Mexico State University (NMSU), Texas A&M University-CorpusChristi (TAMU-CC), University of Houston-Downtown (UHD), University of Puerto RicoMayaguez (UPRM), and The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). The core purposeestablished by the CAHSI institutions was to create a unified voice to consolidate the strengths,resources, and concerns of HSIs and other groups