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Aoife Hennessy; Kieran Murphy – Irish Educational Studies, 2025
The importance of student engagement is long recognised. Students who are more engaged will be more motivated and inclined to complete their studies. The aim of this study is to understand barriers to engagement for first-year computing students, a cohort that traditionally have high non-progression rates. A qualitative descriptive design was…
Descriptors: Barriers, Learner Engagement, Computer Science Education, College Freshmen
Joe Michael Allen – ProQuest LLC, 2021
A well-run introductory CS1 course is essential for all students within CS education. CS1 is necessary to keep students in the major and important to attract non-majors to the CS field. Unfortunately, there are many well-known issues that most CS1 courses have in common: high drop rates, low retention, high student stress, student struggle,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Computer Science Education, Computer Science, Required Courses
Paul Christian Dawkins; Kyeong Hah Roh – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2024
This article offers the construct "unitizing predicates" to name mental actions important for students' reasoning about logic. To unitize a predicate is to conceptualize (possibly complex or multipart) conditions as a single property that every example has or does not have, thereby partitioning a universal set into examples and…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Logical Thinking, Mathematical Logic, Validity
Ella Christiaans; So Yeon Lee; Kristy A. Robinson – Educational Psychology, 2024
Students want to learn computer science due to its usefulness for future careers, however they often meet challenges in introductory courses. In the increasingly digital world, it is important to understand some important psychological consequences of such challenges: perceived costs of pursuing computer science. This study thus investigated…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Computer Science Education, Psychological Patterns, Student Attitudes
Danyelle Tauryce Willis; Kimberley Edelin Freeman – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2024
Objectives: We aim to understand, from a motivational perspective, how Black undergraduate women in computing make sense of their intersectional computing experiences. We examine their motivation to major in computing, their experiences as Black women in computing, and how these vary across institutional contexts. Participants: A sample of 77…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, African American Students, Student Motivation, Student Experience
Neves, Vania de Oliveira; Morita Melo, Silvana; Viana, Davi; Pereira dos Santos, Rodrigo; Graciano Neto, Valdemar Vicente – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2023
Contribution: The main contribution of this study is to gather and report on the challenges faced by IS courses based on the professors' perspectives. Background: Information systems (ISs) area focuses on the interplay among people, processes/organizations, and technologies. As such, stimulating technical and nontechnical competencies are required…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Systems, Computer Science Education, Undergraduate Students
Gökoglu, Seyfullah; Kilic, Servet – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2023
This study investigates pre-service computer science (CS) teachers' perspectives on the factors affecting their programming abilities, concerns about their future professional lives, and pedagogical suggestions for effective programming teaching. The participants of the study were twenty-eight pre-service CS teachers studying at eighteen different…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Science Education, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods
Oscar Navarro – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There is a significant gap in the number of women who go into college as computer science majors and decide to pursue the field in the workforce. There are challenges present for female students since the start of their education that their male counterparts do not face, which ultimately contributes to this gender gap. Such challenges include a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Females, Computer Science Education, Gender Issues
Amanda A. Barrett; Colin T. Smith; Courtni H. Hafen; Emilee Severe; Elizabeth G. Bailey – Computer Science Education, 2024
Background and Context: While biology has strong female representation, computer science is the least gender equitable of the STEM fields. A better understanding of the barriers that keep women out of computational fields will help overcome those barriers to create a more diverse workforce. Objective: We investigated the complexities that…
Descriptors: Sex Role, Majors (Students), Prior Learning, Computer Science Education
Liao, Yin-Chan; Ringler, Marjorie – Cogent Education, 2023
This study was undertaken to address an issue of student retention and learning in undergraduate computer science (CS) courses. To improve students' CS learning experience, the goal of this case study was to support five CS faculty's integration of active learning into their teaching, using the Understanding by Design framework. We explored the CS…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Educational Change
Casper, A. M. Aramati; Rambo-Hernandez, Karen E.; Park, Seoyeon; Atadero, Rebecca A. – Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
Background: In Spring 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic sent universities into emergency remote education. The pandemic has been disruptive but offers the opportunity to learn about ways to support students in other situations where abrupt changes to teaching and learning are necessary. Purpose/Hypothesis: We described the responses of engineering and…
Descriptors: Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Engineering Education
Stephanie M. Werner; Raisa Blazquez – Illinois Workforce and Education Research Collaborative, Discovery Partners Institute, 2024
The purpose of "The Pathways and Experiences of Illinois Computer Science Undergraduate Students Series," as the name suggests, is to understand the pathways and experiences of computer science (CS) and tech students in post-secondary programs throughout Illinois, paying particular attention to students from historically marginalized…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Experience, Power Structure
Schiff, Daniel S.; Logevall, Emma; Borenstein, Jason; Newstetter, Wendy; Potts, Colin; Zegura, Ellen – Journal of Engineering Education, 2021
Background: Developing social responsibility attitudes in future engineers and computer scientists is of critical and rising importance. Yet research shows that prosocial attitudes decline during undergraduate engineering education. Purpose: Influenced by the Professional Social Responsibility Development Model (PSRDM), this study explores the…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, Engineering Education, Prosocial Behavior, Undergraduate Students
Yabing Jiang; Kazuo Nakatani – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2025
This research answers the call for Information Systems (IS) faculty to actively embrace rapidly advancing AI tools in teaching. We experimented with redesigning learning activities in two courses, requiring students to use GenAI, to aid student learning and teach responsible use of GenAI. The results show that students in the experimental group…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Technology Integration, Artificial Intelligence, Higher Education
Daisy Ramirez; Sarah L. Rodriguez; Kathleen J. Lehman; Linda J. Sax – Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 2024
This qualitative study employs interviews to explore the process of computing identity development and maintenance among Latina undergraduate students, beginning from their experiences in introductory computing courses and extending beyond. The findings shed light on the significant influence of factors such as peer and faculty recognition,…
Descriptors: Females, Hispanic American Students, Student Attitudes, Self Concept