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A Comprehensive Analysis of Students' Experiences of Belonging to the CS Community

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ITiCSE '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Pages 579 - 580

https://doi.org/10.1145/3341525.3394005

Published: 15 June 2020 Publication History

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Developing a sense of belonging to the community in CS departments during the first year plays a vital role in students' retention decisions. This research plan outlines both belonging as a psychosocial construct framed within higher education and issues related to it in computer science. The fully mixed sequential dominant status design will be used to understand and quantify belonging from both the students' and faculty's perspective. Pedagogical actions to improve belonging will be studied and disseminated.

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Mooney CBecker BSherriff MMerkle LCutter PMonge ASheard J(2021)Investigating the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Computing Students' Sense of BelongingProceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education10.1145/3408877.3432407(612-618)Online publication date: 3-Mar-2021
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3416465.3416476

Index Terms

A Comprehensive Analysis of Students' Experiences of Belonging to the CS Community
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education

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ITiCSE '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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DOI:10.1145/3341525

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Mooney CBecker B(2021)Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on computing students' sense of belongingACM Inroads10.1145/346340812:2(38-45)Online publication date: 10-May-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3463408
Mooney CBecker BSherriff MMerkle LCutter PMonge ASheard J(2021)Investigating the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Computing Students' Sense of BelongingProceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education10.1145/3408877.3432407(612-618)Online publication date: 3-Mar-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3408877.3432407
Mooney CBecker B(2020)Sense of Belonging: The Intersectionality of Self-Identified Minority Status and Gender in Undergraduate Computer Science StudentsUnited Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research conference.10.1145/3416465.3416476(24-30)Online publication date: 3-Sep-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3416465.3416476

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