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This paper summarizes findings from a Student Motivation Survey (SMS) developed to monitor students' dispositions toward CS education. This survey was administered as part of the iDREAMS project, which involved creating in-school computer programming ...

The Maker Movement has been successful in refocusing attention on the value of hand work, but heritage craft practices remain noticeably absent. We argue that combining heritage craft practices, like those found in many American Indian communities ...

The study explores the positive impact for girls and young women from engaging in computer clubs, with regard to their vocational preparation as well as to their social empowerment. Our comparative study focuses on gender related barriers in a ...

Girls have long been dismissed and trivialized by the game industry. The Girls' Game Movement of the 1990s aimed to create games specifically for girls, but ultimately struggled to reach consensus on whether to make games catering to the feminine ...

Interactive narratives can be used to create more inclusive game-based learning environments. Combining socio-cultural perspectives with an interactive narrative format provides a means for considering learners' identities alongside course learning ...

We developed a short, easily implemented survey that measures the similarity in phrases describing the self and a computer scientist. Additionally, we took initial steps in determining adjectives or phrases that describe a stereotypical computer ...

A widely held belief among researchers and educators is that gender stereotypes keep women from pursuing IT---that a female identity is inconsistent with a positive computer science identity. As a result, many interventions aim to raise awareness about ...

Existing scholarship on gender in gaming does not well consider social structural factors, instead either psychologizing gender issues or rendering it an insignificant variable altogether [1]. Thus, we aim to build on this literature by focusing our ...

A study of 48 completed Frogger games created by middle school students using the Scalable Game Design curriculum were studied to determine how completion rates varied based on race and gender. Results to a student survey administered to the same sample ...

Previous research suggested a relationship between teachers' and students' attitudes towards a subject area. In order to increase female representation in Computer Science (CS), we need female teachers who have positive attitudes and can provide role ...

Encouraging middle school girls to become interested in Computer Science has been a concern in the Computer Science Education community for many years. Although many girls do play digital games[4], this has not led to further interest in computer ...