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Kadir Bahar; Erdogan Kaya; Xiaolu Zhang; Eter Mjavanadze – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2023
This study explores the direction and magnitude of racial disparities on three advanced placement (AP) computer science (CS) exams, namely AP CS Principles, AP CS A, and AP CS AB, based on the test scores of more than one million students who have taken AP CS exams between 1997 and 2020. Using Mann-Kendall test and Sen's slope procedures we found…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Academic Achievement, High Achievement
Tierney, William G., Ed.; Corwin, Zoë B., Ed.; Ochsner, Amanda, Ed. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018
Many schools and programs in low-income neighborhoods lack access to the technological resources, including equipment and Internet service, that those in middle- and upper-income neighborhoods have at their fingertips. This inequity creates a persistent digital divide--not a simple divide in access to technology per se, but a divide in both formal…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Computer Literacy, Educational Opportunities, Equal Education
Martin, C. Dianne – Computer Science Education, 1991
Presents a summary of nine research reports from a National Educational Computing Conference research workshop whose purpose was to bring together researchers who have been conducting gender-related research in computer science education. Three subgroups discussed the issues of exposure, attraction, and retention of women to computer science. (MDH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Computer Science, Computer Science Education
Hunka, Dan; And Others – 1985
An elective unit was developed for a course (Math 20) which would teach students to program solutions to typical exercises. Development of the unit took place in a large senior high school in Alberta. The elective is 15 hours long, with the first five hours devoted to learning programming fundamentals and the final ten hours to programming…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Science Education, Educational Research
Watt, Daniel Lynn; Watt, Molly Lynn – 1992
This book is designed to help teachers maximize their students' learning of Logo. It investigates what students learn when they learn Logo, and how teachers know what they are learning. The book is intended primarily for teachers at the upper elementary and middle school levels. Each chapter is devoted to a critical aspect of Logo learning, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Science Education
Billings, Karen J. – 1985
This handbook is designed to provide teachers and administrators at the district and school level with a set of procedures for gathering information about the major components of a computer education program and for using the information to develop conclusions and recommendations regarding the components of the program. The four major components…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrators, Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education
Rosen, Edward; McKim, James C., Jr. – Journal of Computer Science Education, 1992
Presents the underlying ideas of the Software Cost Reduction (SCR) approach to requirements specifications. Results of applying this approach to the teaching of programing to high school students indicate that students perform better in writing programs. An appendix provides two examples of how the method is applied to problem solving. (MDH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Science Education, Computer Software Development, Computer Uses in Education
Russ, Michael – Printout, 1986
Student use of microcomputer databases in social studies is discussed. Databases give students and teachers an opportunity to get involved in information storage, retrieval, and analysis. In the process, students develop skills of inquiry, problem-solving, and critical thinking, as well as many of the basic skills needed not only in social studies…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science Education, Computers
Lockheed, Marlaine E.; And Others – 1985
During the past several years considerable national-level attention has been focused on the state of American public education in mathematics, science and technology. There is, among the several policy reports, substantial agreement that student achievement levels in mathematics are lower than is desirable and the opportunity to learn mathematics,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Science Education, Ethnic Groups, Intermediate Grades
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Hudak, Mary A.; Anderson, David E. – Teaching of Psychology, 1990
Studies 94 undergraduate students in introductory statistics and computer science courses. Applies Formal Operations Reasoning Test (FORT) and Kolb's Learning Style Inventory (LSI). Finds that substantial numbers of students have not achieved the formal operation level of cognitive maturity. Emphasizes need to examine students learning style and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Ability