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Uncovering Meaningful Computing Contexts for Incarcerated College Students

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Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj,

William Griswold,

Leo PorterAuthors Info & Claims

ITiCSE 2024: Proceedings of the 2024 on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1

Pages 701 - 707

https://doi.org/10.1145/3649217.3653632

Published: 03 July 2024 Publication History

Abstract

Higher education is expanding in United States prisons, with a growing demand for STEM offerings. Academics from other disciplines have stressed the importance of culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) in prison higher education, and computing in context has shown major benefits in CS1--- especially for women and nontraditional students. More work is needed to determine what contexts are relevant to incarcerated college students, and how to incorporate these into computing curricula. In this paper, we build on prior work on computing in context and culturally relevant techniques in computing. We analyze course data from a CS1 course taught in a college-in-prison program to answer the following research question: What contexts do incarcerated students in CS1 find relevant? We identify 24 topics pursued by students across 78 open-ended programming assignment submissions, the three most popular being business management, sports statistics, and physical health. These results offer insight into potential contexts that are meaningful to incarcerated college students to be incorporated into future computing curricula and interventions in prisons.

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Smith JWallace C(2024)Equity Spotlight: Emma HoganACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/3699853.369986056:3(8-11)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3699853.3699860

Index Terms

Uncovering Meaningful Computing Contexts for Incarcerated College Students
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Adult education
      2. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        CS1

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ITiCSE 2024: Proceedings of the 2024 on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1

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DOI:10.1145/3649217

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Mahlangu V(2024)Challenges and Approaches to Overcoming Educational Barriers in a Distance Learning EnvironmentInternational Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147- 4478)10.20525/ijrbs.v13i7.363713:7(519-526)Online publication date: 8-Dec-2024
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Smith JWallace C(2024)Equity Spotlight: Emma HoganACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/3699853.369986056:3(8-11)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3699853.3699860

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