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A Oleson, B Xie, J Salac, J Everson… - … Computing Education …, 2022 - dl.acm.org

A Decade of Demographics in Computing Education Research: A Critical Review of Trends in Collection, Reporting, and Use.

Broadening Participation in Computing AND Program Evaluation

Oleson, Salac, Xie

GSID: OKdafVpT2qkJ

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Computing education research (CER) has used demographic data to understand learners' identities, backgrounds, and contexts for efforts such as culturally-responsive computing. Prior work indicates that failing to elucidate and critically engage with the implicit assumptions of a field can unintentionally reinforce power structures that further marginalize people from non-dominant groups. The goal of this paper is two-fold: to understand what populations CER researchers have studied, and to surface implicit assumptions about how …