Gender Differences in Hackathons as a Non-traditional Educational Experience

Hackathons, the time-bound collaborative project-based computer science competitions increasingly popular with computer science students, are one of the largest-scale innovations in computing education of the past decade. This research examined three hackathons and 46,500 surveys to find that educational benefits were unequal between genders in ways that would especially impact women returning to the workforce.

Gender Differences in Hackathons as a Non-traditional Educational Experience

  • Author Hardin, Caroline D.
  • Publication Title ACM Transactions On Computing Education
  • Publication Year 2021
  • BPC Focus Gender
  • Methodology Survey, Qualitative
  • Analytic Method Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), Correlation
  • Institution Type Minority Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Predominantly Black Institutions
  • DOI 10.1145/3433168
  • URL https://doi.org/10.1145/3433168