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Lihui Sun; Junjie Liu – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2025
Computational Thinking (CT) has evolved as an essential competency for K-12 students, and programming practices are recognized as the key way to facilitate CT development. However, most studies of CT development in middle graders have focused on visual programming, lacking evidence to demonstrate the effectiveness of Python programming. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Middle School Students
Mike Karlin; Anne Ottenbreit-Leftwich; Yin-Chan Janet Liao – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2024
While a growing emphasis has been placed on broadening participation in computer science (CS) education, an enduring gender gap exists. One reason for this is gender-based CS stereotypes, which serve as gatekeepers and act in exclusionary ways. However, some high schools in the U.S. have still built gender-inclusive CS programs. We conducted a…
Descriptors: High Schools, Computer Science Education, Gender Differences, Stereotypes
Yin-Rong Zhang; Zhong-Mei Han; Tao He; Chang-Qin Huang; Fan Jiang; Gang Yang; Xue-Mei Wu – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: Collaborative programming is important and challenging for K12 students. Scaffolding is a vital method to support students' collaborative programming learning. However, conventional scaffolding that does not fade may lead students to become overly dependent, resulting in unsatisfactory programming performance. Objectives: This study…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Programming
Lihui Sun; Danhua Zhou – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Integrating programming in K-12 curriculum has become a global consensus. Teachers are central figures in programming instruction. But the majority of current research focuses on teachers' external teaching behaviours and less on teachers' attitudes towards programming. Objectives: The purpose of this study is to validate the K-12…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Kocaman, Berrak – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2023
This research aims to examine the effect of coding education on the analytical thinking skills of gifted students. The participants are 18 students, 11 to 12 years old. An embedded experimental mixed design was used in the research. The data collection was carried out with the Analytical Thinking Skill Scale to determine the difference in the…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Science Education, Thinking Skills, Academically Gifted
Quinn McCashin; Catherine Adams; Michael Carbonaro; Lance Pedersen – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2023
Computer Science (CS) education is an emergent growth area in schools worldwide. This paper explores how CS education has evolved at the high school level (grades 10-12) in the Canadian province of Alberta over the past decade after a reorganization and curriculum redesign of its Computing Science Education (CSE) program. In partnership with…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Foreign Countries, High School Students, Curriculum Design
Allison Master; Taylor Alexander; Jennifer Thompson; Weihua Fan; Andrew N. Meltzoff; Sapna Cheryan – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2025
Motivating girls to enroll in computer science (CS) courses is critically important. Stereotypes that girls are less interested than boys in CS may deter girls. Three preregistered experimental studies (N = 1,053) examined causal links between gender-interest stereotypes and middle school students' CS motivation. Experiment 1 showed that…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Middle School Students, Computer Science Education
Gediminas Merkys; Sigitas Vaitkevicius; Daiva Bubeliene; Vaino Brazdeikis – Informatics in Education, 2025
The paper presents graduates results in computer science testing according to their dependence from students' gender, family socioeconomic status, and the type of prosperity of the locality of the school in Lithuania. It was found that the gender of the graduate does not affect the results in computer science test. However, the girls who chooses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Status
Mirjam Paales; Karin Täht – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2025
Contribution: This study enhances the understanding of the factors that impact academic performance and self-efficacy among computer science (CS) students, specifically focusing on gender differences. Background: The motivation behind this study stems from the gender disparity observed within undergraduate CS programs. This gender gap undermines…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Gender Differences, Undergraduate Students
Experiencing Enjoyment in Visual Programming Tasks Promotes Self-Efficacy and Reduces the Gender Gap
Robbert Smit; Rahel Schmid; Nicolas Robin – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
Secondary school students (N = 269) participated in a daylong visual programming course held in a stimulating environment for start-up enterprises. The tasks were application-oriented and partly creative. For example, a wearable device with light-emitting diodes, (ie, LEDs) could be applied to a T-shirt and used for optical messages. Our research…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Gender Differences, Prediction, Student Attitudes
Liu, Jun; Li, Qingyue; Sun, Xue; Zhu, Ziqi; Xu, Yanhua – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
Programming self-efficacy plays an important role in promoting interest in programming education among teenagers. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine to what extent family socioeconomic status, programming learning, programming teaching, and gender influence programming self-efficacy. A total of 851 upper-secondary-school students…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Science Education, Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries
Zdawczyk, Christina; Varma, Keisha – Computer Science Education, 2023
Background and Context: A continued gender disparity has driven a need for effective interventions for recruiting girls to computer science. Prior research has demonstrated that middle school girls hold beliefs and attitudes that keep them from learning computer science, which can be mitigated through classroom design. Objective: This study…
Descriptors: Females, Computer Science Education, Gender Differences, Student Attitudes
Chen Chen; Jonathan Rothwell; Pedrito Maynard-Zhang – Computer Science Education, 2024
Background and Context: Both in- and out-of-school computer science (CS) learning opportunities are expanding, but their influences on CS career interests are unclear. Method: To investigate, we applied multinomial propensity score weighting analysis on a 2021 U.S. nationally representative sample of 4,116 5th-to-12th-grade students. Findings: The…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Computer Science Education, Influences, Vocational Interests
Hamer, Jessica M. M.; Kemp, Peter E. J.; Wong, Billy; Copsey-Blake, Meggie – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
Despite being in a digital age, the diversity of young people choosing to study and work in computing is of ongoing concern, especially low numbers of girls. This paper aims to determine the profile of students who are more likely to aspire to be computer scientists and provide insights into the key factors that shape their aspirations in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Occupational Aspiration
Awaah, Fred; Okebukola, Peter; Shabani, Juma; Solarin, Daniel; Emmanuel Okyere, Ekwam – Cogent Education, 2022
The Culturo-Techno-Contextual Approach (CTCA) is a teaching method based on culture, technology, and context to ease difficulties in students' understanding of concepts. Python Programming as a concept in computer studies is difficult for students to understand at the secondary school level. This study investigates the efficacy of the CTCA in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Programming Languages, Secondary School Students