Increasing Women's Persistence in Computer Science by Decreasing Gendered Self-Assessments of Computing Ability
Increasing Women's Persistence in Computer Science by Decreasing Gendered Self-Assessments of Computing Ability
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通过减少对计算能力的性别自我评估来提高女性对计算机科学的坚持
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10.1145/3430665.3456374
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2021
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通讯作者：
Stolee, Kathryn T.
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Fisk, Susan R.;Wingate, Tiah;Battestilli, Lina;Stolee, Kathryn T.
对女性计算能力的性别刻板印象导致女性经历性别偏见，从而导致女性在计算机领域的匮乏。这些性别刻板印象对女性是双重不利的，因为它们在计算机能力的自我评估中造成了性别差异，降低了女性坚持计算机科学（CS）的可能性。这是因为学生需要相信他们在一个领域有足够的能力，才能把它作为一种职业。基于几十年的社会学理论，我们假设，提高表现最好的女性对计算能力的自我评估，会增加这些女性坚持计算的意愿。为了验证这一假设，我们在CS1的一个班级进行了实地实验，其中前50%的学生通过电子邮件从他们的老师那里获得了额外的表现反馈。干预增加了这些女性和男性的自评CS能力，但只增加了女性的CS坚持意愿。总而言之，发送一封电子邮件会使表现优秀的女性坚持CS的意愿提高18%。一项中介分析为提出的因果路径找到了证据；也就是说，干预增加了女性对计算能力的自我评估，从而增加了她们坚持计算的意愿。这项研究进一步加深了我们对能力自我评估和职业选择过程的认识，这些过程导致了计算机科学领域女性的匮乏。它还为轻量级干预提供了证据，可能会增加计算机领域女性的数量，因为先前的研究发现，坚持的意图高度预测了STEM领域的实际坚持。
Gender stereotypes about women's computing ability contribute to the dearth of women in computing by causing women to experience gender bias. These gender stereotypes are doubly disadvantaging to women because they create gender differences in self-assessments of computing ability, decreasing the likelihood that women will persist in Computer Science (CS). This is because students need to believe they have sufficient ability in a field in order to pursue it as a career.Building on decades of Sociological theory, we hypothesized that increasing top-performing women's self-assessments of computing ability would increase those women's intentions to persist in computing. To test this hypothesis, we conducted a field experiment in a CS1 class in which the top 50% of students were given additional performance feedback from their instructor via email. The intervention increased these women's and men's self-assessed CS ability but only increased the women's CS persistence intentions. In sum, sending a single email increased top-performing women's intentions to persist in CS by 18%. A mediation analysis found evidence for the proposed causal path; namely, that the intervention increased the women's self-assessments of computing ability, which then increased their intentions to persist in computing. This research furthers our knowledge of the processes around self-assessments of ability and career choice that contribute to the dearth of women in CS. It also provides evidence for a lightweight intervention that may increase the number of women in computing, as prior research finds that intentions to persist are highly predictive of actual persistence in STEM fields.
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1999
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作者：
J. Chafetz
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J. Chafetz
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4.4
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Correll, SJ
通讯作者：
Correll, SJ
刻板印象的实验研究。
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1935
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M. Sherif
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M. Sherif