This program is tentative and subject to change.

Mon 4 Aug 2025 12:10 - 12:35 at Grove Ballroom I+II - B: Teaching Considerations

Computing ethics education aims to develop students’ critical reflection and agency. We need validated ways to measure whether our efforts succeed. Through two survey administrations (N=474, N=464) with computing students and professionals, we provide evidence for the validity of the \textit{Critical Reflection and Agency in Computing Index}. Our psychometric analyses demonstrate distinct dimensions of ethical development and show strong reliability and construct validity. Participants who completed computing ethics courses showed higher scores in some dimensions of ethical reflection and agency, but they also exhibited stronger techno-solutionist beliefs, highlighting a challenge in current pedagogy. This validated instrument enables systematic measurement of how computing students develop critical consciousness, allowing educators to better understand how to prepare computing professionals to tackle ethical challenges in their work.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Mon 4 Aug

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11:20 - 12:35
B: Teaching ConsiderationsResearch Papers at Grove Ballroom I+II
11:20
25m
Talk
Analyzing High School CS Teachers’ Likelihood of Attrition
Research Papers
Mariam Saffar Perez University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Colleen M. Lewis University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Rebecca Hinze-Pifer University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
11:45
25m
Talk
Lessons from Designing a Course and Platform for Teaching Qualitative Analysis Experientially in a Large Course-Based Community Consultancy
Research Papers
Dustin Palea University of California, Santa Cruz, Elijah Kirby UC Santa Cruz, Madison Gruender UC Santa Cruz, Bryan Min University of California San Diego, Jessalyn Wang , David Lee University of California, Santa Cruz
12:10
25m
Talk
Validation of the Critical Reflection and Agency in Computing Index: Do Computing Ethics Courses Make a Difference?
Research Papers
Aadarsh Padiyath University of Michigan, Casey Fiesler University of Colorado Boulder, Mark Guzdial University of Michigan, Barbara Ericson University of Michigan