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Lijun Shen; Zitsi Mirakhur; Sarah LaCour – Computer Science Education, 2025
Background and Context: Educators and researchers are interested in building the computational thinking (CT) skills of K-12 students. However, the availability of language-agnostic assessments for lower elementary graders remains limited. Objective: We present preliminary insights into the reliability and validity of the Computational Thinking…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Gender Differences, Computer Science Education, Elementary School Students
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Leiny Garcia; Miranda Parker; Mark Warschauer – Computer Science Education, 2024
Background and Context: Despite the growing initiatives in K-12 computer science (CS), there is a continued disparity in the participation of Latinx and multilingual students, a historically underrepresented group in computing. The inequitable participation may be understood by examining students' early development of CS attitudes. Objective: This…
Descriptors: Coding, Student Attitudes, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
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Katharine Childs; Sue Sentance – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2024
Gender balance in computing education is a decades-old issue that has been the focus of much previous research. In K-12, the introduction of mandatory computing education goes some way to giving all learners the opportunity to engage with computing throughout school, but a gender imbalance still persists when computer science becomes an elective…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Females, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students
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Voyles, Martha M.; Fossum, Tim; Haller, Susan – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2008
This study examines teacher-student interactions and selected student gender differences with volunteer boys and recruited girls in a technology class. The participants were teachers and triads of girls and boys in single-gender sections of a technology course where the students built, designed features for, and programmed Lego robots. We analyzed…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Science Instruction, Females, Interviews