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Examining Interest and Grades in Computer Science 1: A Study of Pedagogy and Achievement Goals
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Zingaro, Daniel – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2015
Computer Science 1 (CS1), the first course taken by college-level computer science (CS) majors, has traditionally suffered from high failure rates. Efforts to understand this phenomenon have considered a wide range of predictors of CS success, such as prior programming experience, math ability, learning style, and gender, with findings that are…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Student Interests, College Students, Grades (Scholastic)