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Silvia Wen-Yu Lee; Jyh-Chong Liang; Chung-Yuan Hsu; Meng-Jung Tsai – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
While research has shown that students' epistemic beliefs can be a strong predictor of their academic performance, cognitive abilities, or self-efficacy, studies of this topic in computer education are rare. The purpose of this study was twofold. First, it aimed to validate a newly developed questionnaire for measuring students' epistemic beliefs…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Beliefs, Computer Science Education, Programming
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Rachmatullah, Arif; Akram, Bita; Boulden, Danielle; Mott, Bradford; Boyer, Kristy; Lester, James; Wiebe, Eric – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
The increasing interest in computer science (CS) and CS-integrated STEM teaching and learning has created a need for assessment instruments that can be used to evaluate the efficacy of innovative instructional approaches to K-12 CS education. However, there is a lack of validated assessment tools aligned to core CS concepts for younger students.…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Measures (Individuals), Multiple Choice Tests
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Yildiz, Serife Nur; Ates-Cobanoglu, Alev; Kisla, Tarik – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2020
This paper reports the development process of a scale for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) teachers' acceptance and use of Scratch for teaching programming. For early beginners of programming, Scratch is the most popular block-based software for facilitating programming teaching (Zhang and Nouri, 2019) worldwide. Also, in Turkey,…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Computer Software, Computer Science Education, Technology Integration
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von Wangenheim, Christiane G.; Petri, Giani; Zibertti, André W.; Borgatto, Adriano F.; Hauck, Jean C. R.; Pacheco, Fernando S.; Filho, Raul Missfeldt – Informatics in Education, 2017
The objective of this article is to present the development and evaluation of dETECT (Evaluating TEaching CompuTing), a model for the evaluation of the quality of instructional units for teaching computing in middle school based on the students' perception collected through a measurement instrument. The dETECT model was systematically developed…
Descriptors: Units of Study, Course Evaluation, Case Studies, Evaluation Methods