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Understanding differences among coding club students
Ville IsomöttönenVesa LappalainenAntti-jussi Lakanensubject
ta113OutreachGame programmingComputer scienceMultitudePedagogyComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATIONMathematics educationClubCoding (social sciences)Qualitative researchdescription
Scholars and instructors have been carrying out a multitude of actions to increase students' interest in computer science during the past years. Still, there is a need for knowledge on how these attempts develop student interest. In this qualitative study, we construct illustrative categories out of students who have attended our K-12 coding club and game programming summer course activities. We found four categories: Inactivity, Lack of self-direction, Experimenting, and Professionalism. We also briefly project this abstraction onto a four-phase model of interest development.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-01 | Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Innovation & technology in computer science education - ITiCSE '14 |