In this episode I unpack Tsan, Boyer, and Lynch’s (2016) publication titled “How early does the CS gender gap emerge? A study of collaborative problem solving in 5th grade computer science,” which investigates the potential impact of gendered groups on the quality of completed Scratch projects in an in-school computer science class for 5th grade students.

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00:00 Intro

00:48 Abstract

01:53 My single sentence summary

02:06 Paper introduction

03:19 Related work

04:22 Context

06:33 Results

09:39 Discussion and limitations

12:29 Lingering questions and thoughts

12:34 How might the gender and confidence of a teacher impact learning?

13:32 How would the findings have changed over time?

14:26 How might the results change if we accounted for prior experience?

15:31 How would the results change for trans students?

17:23 Outro