Need to consider variations within demographic groups when evaluating educational interventions

  • Authors:

  • Amruth N. Kumar

  • Affiliations:

  • Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ, USA

  • Venue:
  • ITiCSE '09 Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Traditionally, educational interventions in Computer Science have been studied for their effect on entire classes, or specific demographic groups. But, in our studies, we have found that often, significant interactions exist among demographic groups. Treating demographic groups as homogeneous groups when evaluating educational interventions in Computer Science could miss subtle interactions among the groups.