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Crues, R. Wes; Henricks, Genevieve M.; Perry, Michelle; Bhat, Suma; Anderson, Carolyn J.; Shaik, Najmuddin; Angrave, Lawrence – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2018
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)--in part, because of their free, flexible, and relatively anonymous nature--may provide a means for helping overcome the large gender gap in Computer Science (CS). This study examines why women and men chose to enroll in a CS MOOC and how this is related to successful behavior in the course by (a) using k-means…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Computer Science Education, Persistence, Gender Differences
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Silva-Maceda, Gabriela; Arjona-Villicaña, P. David; Castillo-Barrera, F. Edgar – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2016
Learning to program is a complex task, and the impact of different pedagogical approaches to teach this skill has been hard to measure. This study examined the performance data of seven cohorts of students (N = 1168) learning programming under three different pedagogical approaches. These pedagogical approaches varied either in the length of the…
Descriptors: Programming, Teaching Methods, Intermode Differences, Cohort Analysis