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Ismaila Temitayo Sanusi; Enoch Shadrack Cudjoe; Musa Adekunle Ayanwale; Bisola Adepoju – SAGE Open, 2025
The increased trend of incorporating computer programming in the basic education system across countries requires the training of new educators. However, the current effort to increase the number of teachers teaching programming is through professional development programs for computer science (CS) teachers and from other content areas. Meanwhile,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Programming, Computer Science Education
Mara Kirdani-Ryan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Impending climate crises, profound wealth inequality and unprecedented vulnerability to global catastrophe at the hands of technology make working towards justice a necessity, and a desperate one at that. However, engaging in work towards justice requires deconstructing the dominant narratives and norms that restrict what actions are permissible…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Computer Science Education, Career Development, Social Justice
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Billy Wong; Jessica M. M. Hamer; Meggie Copsey-Blake; Peter E. J. Kemp – Educational Review, 2025
Popular discourses of computing and computer science can often frame the sector and the people within it as highly intelligent yet socially challenged, contributing to stereotypes that can potentially exclude those perceived to lack these skills or characteristics. For young people, such stereotypes can influence their educational and career…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Adolescents, Early Adolescents
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Matthew Bahnson; Monique Ross; Catherine G. P. Berdanier – Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
Background: Postdoctoral training holds an increasingly important place in preparation for leading academic and research positions. While little empirical research has described postdoctoral training beyond the sciences, across all fields, "misaligned expectations" are often touted as a key source of postdoctoral strife.…
Descriptors: Postdoctoral Education, Engineering Education, Computer Science Education, Mentors
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Ella Christiaans; So Yeon Lee; Kristy A. Robinson – Educational Psychology, 2024
Students want to learn computer science due to its usefulness for future careers, however they often meet challenges in introductory courses. In the increasingly digital world, it is important to understand some important psychological consequences of such challenges: perceived costs of pursuing computer science. This study thus investigated…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Computer Science Education, Psychological Patterns, Student Attitudes
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Brett D. Jones; Xiao Zhu; Margaret Ellis; Zeynep Ambarkutuk; Hande Fenerci – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2025
To address the demand for engineers and computer scientists in the workforce, and the fact that some engineering students dropout or change majors, we explored how the motivational climate in an undergraduate computer science (CS) course was related to students' motivational beliefs and academic and career goals. Participants included 310 students…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Beliefs, Occupational Aspiration