{"id":3380,"date":"2013-05-05T09:51:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T15:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2015-11-14T16:09:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T23:09:06","slug":"gender-bias-found-in-how-graduate-students-review-scientific-studies-computing-education-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/05\/05\/gender-bias-found-in-how-graduate-students-review-scientific-studies-computing-education-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Bias Found in How Graduate Students Review Scientific Studies | Computing Education Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/computinged.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/03\/gender-bias-found-in-how-graduate-students-review-scientific-studies\/\">Gender Bias Found in How Graduate Studen<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3384\" alt=\"2013-02-19 @11-36-04\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013-02-19-@11-36-04-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013-02-19-@11-36-04-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013-02-19-@11-36-04-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>ts Review Scientific Studies | Computing Education Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like we still have a ways to go&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>From Mark Guzdial&#8217;s Blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We\u2019ve heard stories like this before, <a title=\"Thy Employee is Not You: New Study Exposes Gender Bias in Tech Job\u00a0Listings\" href=\"http:\/\/computinged.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/22\/thy-employee-is-not-you-new-study-exposes-gender-bias-in-tech-job-listings\/\">about the implicit bias in how STEM professionals are judged<\/a>. \u00a0This one is striking because the participants are graduate students, not established researchers who reflect years of experience in the community. \u00a0These are the new researchers, and they\u2019re already biased.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The research found that graduate students in communication \u2014 both men and women \u2014 showed significant bias against study abstracts they read whose authors had female names like \u201cBrenda Collins\u201d or \u201cMelissa Jordan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These students gave higher ratings to the exact same abstracts when the authors were identified with male names like \u201cAndrew Stone\u201d or \u201cMatthew Webb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the results suggested that some research topics were seen as more appropriate for women scholars \u2014 such as parenting and body image \u2014 while others, like politics, were viewed as more appropriate for men.<\/p>\n<p>These findings suggest that women may still have a more difficult time than men succeeding in academic science, said Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, lead author of the study and associate professor of communication at The Ohio State University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s still a stereotype in our society that science is a more appropriate career for men than it is for women,\u201d Knobloch-Westerwick said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"nuan_ria_plugin\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-3380'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3380);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3380);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(3380);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Gender Bias Found in How Graduate Students Review Scientific Studies | Computing Education Blog. Looks like we still have a ways to go&#8230;. From Mark Guzdial&#8217;s Blog: We\u2019ve heard stories like this before, about the implicit bias in how STEM &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/05\/05\/gender-bias-found-in-how-graduate-students-review-scientific-studies-computing-education-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,14,24,363],"tags":[388,6,151,80],"class_list":["post-3380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-general","category-teaching-learning","category-women","tag-academia","tag-computer-science","tag-gender","tag-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-Sw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2211,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/05\/29\/visual-ability-predicts-a-computer-science-career-why-and-can-we-use-that-to-improve-learning-computing-education-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":3380,"position":0},"title":"Visual ability predicts a computer science career: Why? And can we use that to improve learning? \u00ab Computing Education Blog","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"May 29, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This is interesting, and may explain why teachers have trouble with science and math (and why kids who are inclined towards science and math have trouble with teachers). This is from a longitudinal study, testing students\u2019 visual ability, then tracking what fields they go into later. Having significant visual ability\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computers&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computers","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/computers-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3653,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/07\/24\/interaction-between-stereotypes-expectations-of-success-and-learning-from-failure-computing-education-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":3380,"position":1},"title":"Interaction between stereotypes, expectations of success, and learning from failure | Computing Education Blog","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"July 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Interaction between stereotypes, expectations of success, and learning from failure | Computing Education Blog. This is encouraging! The students who learned about scientists\u2019 struggles developed less-stereotyped images of scientists, became more interested in science, remembered the material better, and did better at complex open-ended problem-solving tasks related to the lesson\u2014while\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Educational Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Educational Technology","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/educational-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5706,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/09\/20\/worth-sharing-the-post-mortem-on-the-apas-dead-on-arrival-policy-statement-on-video-games-christopher-j-ferguson\/","url_meta":{"origin":3380,"position":2},"title":"Worth Sharing: The Post-Mortem on the APA&#8217;s Dead-On-Arrival Policy Statement On Video Games\u00a0|\u00a0Christopher J. 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This 'debate' (I hesitate to call it a debate\u00a0because that implies civility, and we don't really seem to have that here.) has been raging for years, and although it looked like it had settled\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":746,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/05\/11\/why-education-research-is-failing-us-begley-sharon-begley-newsweek-com\/","url_meta":{"origin":3380,"position":3},"title":"Why Education Research Is Failing Us: Begley &#8211; Sharon Begley &#8211; Newsweek.com","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"May 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Why Education Research Is Failing Us: Begley - Sharon Begley - Newsweek.com. Synopsis: This article reports on a meta study comparing inquiry methods against a more trditional approach. What was found is that: \"There is a dearth of carefully crafted, quantitative studies on what works,\" says William Cobern of Western\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4051,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/07\/15\/plos-medicine-why-most-published-research-findings-are-false\/","url_meta":{"origin":3380,"position":4},"title":"PLOS Medicine: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"July 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"PLOS Medicine: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. John P. A. Ioannidis,\u00a0 Published: August 30, 2005 DOI: 10.1371\/journal.pmed.0020124 Interesting. There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. 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