Survey Development for Assessing Student Computing Career Intentions. Technical Report

In spring 2022, WestEd conducted a literature review to summarize the major frameworks used in career intentions research and the evidence supporting each framework, as well as to develop an initial set of constructs to guide the development of a brief, culturally sensitive computing career intentions survey measuring individual, situational, and societal factors. In summer 2022, WestEd developed a draft computing career intentions survey aligned to seven constructs, and then conducted preliminary validation testing of the survey through a series of cognitive interviews and a small-scale field test with 50 respondents. This technical report is a companion to the 2023 paper presented at the 19th ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER) (Kao et al., 2023). This technical report contains additional details about the field testing of the survey that did not fit within the page limits of the ICER paper. This report contains the results of two studies: (1) a large-scale field test to more robustly establish the instrument's reliability and test for differential item functioning (DIF), and (2) a test of the survey's test--retest reliability with a subsample of participants from the largescale field test.