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CS1: Intrinsic Motivation, Self-Efficacy, and Effort
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Antti-Jussi Lakanen; Ville Isomöttönen – Informatics in Education, 2023
This research investigates university students' success in their first programming course (CS1) in relation to their motivation, mathematical ability, programming self-efficacy, and initial goal setting. To our knowledge, these constructs have not been measured in a single study before in the Finnish context. The selection of the constructs is in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Motivation, Self Efficacy