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Sarah Emily Wilson; Joseph B. Wiggins; Lauren N. Wong; Tracy Gault Ulrich; Bill Causey; Jorge Parra; Nicholas A. Gage; Jose Blackorby – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2025
Over the past few decades, advances in computing power and the widespread adoption of the Internet have completely transformed the ways that people obtain information, communicate, educate, and conduct business. Unfortunately, access to technology and to the training required to use technology are not equitably distributed in the United States,…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Intervention
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Polat, Elif; Yilmaz, Rabia Meryem – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
The aim of this study is to compare the effects of unplugged and plugged-in activities on academic achievement and computational thinking (CT) skills of sixth-grade students. Mixed-method research was carried out to explore whether there were differences between the groups, and to learn the students' opinions and experiences regarding the…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Programming, Computer Science Education, Computation
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Happe, Lucia; Buhnova, Barbora; Koziolek, Anne; Wagner, Ingo – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
The interest of girls in computing drops early during primary and secondary education, with minimal recovery in later education stages. In combination with the growing shortage of qualified computer science personnel, this is becoming a major issue, and also a target of numerous studies that examine measures, interventions, and strategies to boost…
Descriptors: Females, Secondary School Students, Computer Science Education, Intervention
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Rafael Herrero-Álvarez; Coromoto León; Gara Miranda; Eduardo Segredo; Óscar Socas; María Cuellar-Moreno; Daniel Caballero-Juliá – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2023
Emotions play a crucial role in knowledge acquisition and can significantly impact motivation when studying a new field. Unfortunately, young people, especially girls, are often not drawn to Computer Science. To address this issue, we conducted an analysis of emotions among 8-9-year-old and 12-13-year-old students engaged in Computational Thinking…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Learning Activities, Student Characteristics
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Nitesh Kumar Jha; Plaban Kumar Bhowmik; Kaushal Kumar Bhagat – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
A majority of research in Computational Thinking (CT) mainly focuses on teaching coding to school students. However, CT involves more than just coding and includes other skills like algorithmic thinking. The current study developed an Online Inquiry-based Learning Platform for Computational Thinking (CT-ONLINQ) that follows Inquiry-Based Learning…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Computer Science Education, Comparative Analysis, Problem Solving
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Saba, Janan; Hel-Or, Hagit; Levy, Sharona T. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2023
This article concerns the synergy between science learning, understanding complexity, and computational thinking (CT), and their impact on near and far learning transfer. The potential relationship between computer-based model construction and knowledge transfer has yet to be explored. We studied middle school students who modeled systemic…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Science Instruction, Learning Management Systems, Learning Processes
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Sarah K. Mason; Matt Hancock; Izzy Thornton – Grantee Submission, 2024
Rural Mississippi schools often face challenges in providing equitable access to Advanced Placement (AP) courses, particularly in STEM fields. This lack of access limits opportunities for high-achieving students to pursue rigorous STEM coursework and related careers. The AP STEM program aims to improve access to AP STEM courses for high-achieving…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, STEM Education, Advanced Placement Programs, Access to Education
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Dana Shaat – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background/Context: There were over 500,000 open computing jobs across the country in 2018, but only 35% of U.S. high schools offer computer science classes, and only 8-10% of STEM graduates study computer science (Code.org, 2018). In 2021, only 5.1% of all Bachelor's degrees conferred were in Computer and Information Sciences (IPEDS, 2018). STEM…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, High School Students, Computer Science Education, Faculty Development
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Anette Bentz; Bernhard Standl – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2024
Digital literacy is considered to be crucial for social and professional participation. Hence, several projects have been launched in school, as well as extracurricular activities to promote digital literacy in middle school. They aim, among other things, to increase interest in the so-called STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Computer Science Education, Extracurricular Activities, Middle School Students
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Aksit, Osman; Wiebe, Eric N. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2020
Computational thinking (CT) and modeling are authentic practices that scientists and engineers use frequently in their daily work. Advances in computing technologies have further emphasized the centrality of modeling in science by making computationally enabled model use and construction more accessible to scientists. As such, it is important for…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education
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Knight, G.; Powell, N.; Woods, G. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
Computer Science (CS) degrees have some of the poorest continuation rates across HE. This study describes an intervention within a diverse CS student cohort to identify students who may be at risk of mathematical academic failure and the success of student mentor-led workshops in enhancing these students' mathematical ability. Diagnostic screening…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Computer Science Education, Learner Engagement, Attendance
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Serrano Corkin, Danya Marie; Ekmekci, Adem; Fisher, Alice – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2020
In response to the underrepresentation of minoritized groups employed in the computer science (CS) field, this study aims to enhance underrepresented minoritized (URM) students' motivation for CS through an intervention informed by culturally relevant pedagogy theory in a required high school mathematics course. This intervention integrated…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Disproportionate Representation, Computer Science, Employment Level
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Decker, Adrienne; McGill, Monica M. – Education Sciences, 2019
There has been considerable investment in pre-college educational interventions for all areas of STEM (including computer science). The goal of many of these initiatives is to engage and interest students early in their educational career. In this study, a systematic literature review was undertaken to determine the demographic and program data…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Differences, Engineering Education, STEM Education
Kirk, Diana; Luxton-Reilly, Andrew; Tempero, Ewan – Teaching and Learning Research Initiative, 2020
New Zealand has a shortage of skilled workers in information technology (IT). Skills relating to computer programming (e.g., software engineer, applications programmer, software tester, web developer) all appear on the 2019 Long Term Skill Shortage List published by Immigration New Zealand. In many parts of the world, demand for computing…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Foreign Countries, Skilled Workers, Computer Science Education
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Vakil, Sepehr; de Royston, Maxine McKinney – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2019
Over the past decade, abroad range of policymakers, corporations, educators, and scholars in the United States have catapulted computer science (CS) education from the sidelines to the center of K-12 public education discourse. While calls for CS education are often framed in terms of national and economic competitiveness, there is a growing…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Computer Science Education, Intervention, Ethics
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