Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

6-8-2026

Department

Department of Computer Science

Abstract

Hidden Curriculum (HC) is the set of essential knowledge, skills, and norms students are expected to know, but never explicitly taught. HC is disproportionately experienced across identities and communities. In computing education, most research addresses immediately identifiable HC within the researcher's context. While such work is important, without proper HC descriptive studies, we could miss more subtle HC that affects student success. This work presents results from interviews with undergraduate computing faculty, students, and peer mentors on their HC experiences. The results demonstrate several categories of HC including development tools, professional skills, institutional navigation, social well-being, and physical well-being. These categories could serve as a foundation for future researchers and practitioners when trying to address and uncover HC in their educational contexts.

Publisher's Statement

© 2026 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Publisher’s version of record: https://doi.org/10.1145/3796496.3811774

Publication Title

Respect 2026 Proceedings of the 2026 Conference for Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering Computing and Technology

ISBN

9798400725104

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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