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Hengtao Tang; Yingxiao Qian; Susan Porter-Voss – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Integrating computer science (CS) content into existing STEM curricula emerges as a viable solution to broadening rural students' participation in CS, but rural students have a significant proficiency gap in science and mathematics. By focusing on an English language arts course as the context for CS integration, this exploratory study examined…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Computer Science, Self Efficacy, Robotics
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Nidhi Bansal; Heena Choudhary – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024
Digital literacy (DL) training improves the participants' digital skills and engagements and achieves desired online benefits and opportunities. However, there remains a gap in understanding whether the acquired skills effectively translate into tangible outcomes. This study explores how digital literacy training programs (DLTPs) serve as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Digital Literacy, Access to Computers, Computer Science Education
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Matthew W. Rutherford; Brian E. Whitacre; Levi Captain; Sabit Ekin; Julie Angle; Tom Hensley; John F. O'Hara – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2025
Contribution: Case study of a rural-focused educational program with two components: 1) introducing high school students and teachers to smart and connected technologies (SCTs) that can be used to solve local problems and 2) engaging the local community in supporting local technology-driven entrepreneurship. Background: Rural communities typically…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Entrepreneurship, High School Students, Robotics
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Roslyn Arlin Mickelson; Ian Mikkelsen; Mohsen Dorodchi; Bojan Cukic; Tytianna Horn – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2024
Female, Black, Latinx, Native American, low-income, and rural students remain underrepresented among computer science undergraduate degree recipients. Along with student, family, and secondary school characteristics, college organizational climate, curricula, and instructional practices shape undergraduates' experiences that foster persistence…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Computer Science Education, Undergraduate Students, Females