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ERIC Number: ED597964
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Apr-28
Pages: 6
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"What I Can and Cannot Do": Self-Assessment and Learners' Construction of Agentive Selves in Computing
Pei, Christina; Brady, Corey; Wilensky, Uri J.
AERA Online Paper Repository, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Antonio, TX, Apr 27-May 1, 2017)
To address a need for a more computationally literate population, we need to better understand the processes by which students engage with computer science. We thus designed a pilot study to explore how students come to identify with computer science. Specifically, how does engaging in making and take-apart activities impact students' sense of agency and their identification of possible futures involving computing? In this paper, we analyze the multiple selves enacted by two participants in a hands-on computing intervention, how their confidence and self-assessments shifted from pre- to post-intervention, and how those shifts marked the beginnings of the creation of agentive selves in computing.
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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