Susan Haller

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Susan Haller is a computer science education researcher whose work centers on gender equity, teacher-student interactions, and strategies for broadening participation in computing. Her most recognized contribution examines how teachers respond to student gender differences in technology and computer science classrooms, with particular attention to the dynamics between instructors and both male and female students in structured learning environments. Her 2008 study, which has garnered 22 citations, offers a nuanced look at single-gender sections of a technology course, revealing how teachers functionally adapt their responses based on student gender — findings with meaningful implications for how CS educators can better support girls in pre-college settings. Complementing this, her 2007 work on teacher responses to gender differences, cited across multiple venues, addresses the broader challenge of declining and unbalanced CS enrollments, situating classroom teacher behavior as a critical but underexplored lever for recruitment and retention of women in computing. Haller's research fills an important gap between curriculum-level interventions and the everyday interpersonal dynamics that shape young women's experiences in technology education, making her work valuable for educators and policymakers working toward gender-inclusive computing classrooms.