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Higashi, Ross M.; Schunn, Christian D.; Flot, Jesse B. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2017
Free online courses, including Massively Open Online Courses, have great potential to increase the inclusiveness of education, but suffer from very high course dropout rates. A study of 172 K-12 students and 114 K-12 teachers taking the same free, online, summertime programming course finds that student and teacher populations have different…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Dropout Rate, Academic Persistence
Askar, Petek; Davenport, David – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine the factors related to self-efficacy for Java programming among first year engineering students. An instrument assessing Java programming self-efficacy was developed from the computer programming self-efficacy scale of Ramalingam & Wiedenbeck. The instrument was administered at the beginning of the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Correlation, Computer Literacy, Investigations