2018 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT)

Understanding how to apply fundamental computer science problem solving skills is quickly becoming a required competency. It is critical to address issues of equity and inclusion so that we can engage all people in learning key concepts in computing. The Third Annual Conference on Research in Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT) is intended to serve a premier venue for peer-reviewed research on broadening participation in computing. Since broadening participation research is inherently interdisciplinary, we invite contributions from computer science education, educational leadership, learning sciences, cognitive or social psychology, social sciences, and related disciplines. Topics of interest include:

• Inclusive computing curricula and pedagogy
• Recruiting and retention strategies for college computing departments
• Computing outreach in K12
• Teacher factors such as preparation to support learning computing for diverse students, efficacy, beliefs and attitudes, or access to support
• Sociological factors in the pursuit of and persistence in CS education such as contemporary racial attitudes, culture, or family life
• Systemic approaches to addressing equity and inclusion in CS education at different levels of analysis, including the institution, the groups or units that constitute institutions, and the networks in which institutions are embedded
• Computing education research focused on differential impacts based on diversity and/or intersectionality (e.g., gender, race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, LGBT status)
• Equal or widening access to computing education
• The role of CS in education reform
• Interdisciplinarity and its impact on sustained participation

We welcome submissions of research papers and experience reports. All papers should explicitly state their motivating questions, relate to relevant literature, and contain an analysis of effectiveness. Research papers should adhere to rigorous standards, describing hypotheses, methods, and results. Experience reports should carefully describe the context and provide a rich reflection on what worked, what didn’t, and why. In addition, we invite submissions of panels, posters, and lightning talks as a highly interactive forum for discussion of emerging ideas. As in previous editions of the conference, the RESPECT 2018 proceedings will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore library. For the first time, RESPECT will be co-located with the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) on February 21, 2018 in Baltimore, MD.