{"title":"Distributed debugging with electronic textiles: understanding high school student pairs’ problem-solving strategies, practices, and perspectives on repairing physical computing projects","authors":"Gayithri Jayathirtha, Deborah Fields, Yasmin Kafai","doi":"10.1080/08993408.2023.2297738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2023.2297738","url":null,"abstract":"Debugging is a challenging yet understudied practice within recent collaborative K-12 physical computing contexts. We examined think-aloud interviews and reflections of seven high school student pa...","PeriodicalId":45844,"journal":{"name":"Computer Science Education","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139515649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Meghan M. Parkinson, Seppe Hermans, David Gijbels, Daniel L. Dinsmore
{"title":"Exploring debugging processes and regulation strategies during collaborative coding tasks among elementary and secondary students","authors":"Meghan M. Parkinson, Seppe Hermans, David Gijbels, Daniel L. Dinsmore","doi":"10.1080/08993408.2024.2305026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2024.2305026","url":null,"abstract":"More data are needed about how young learners identify and fix errors while programming in pairs.The study will identify discernible patterns in the intersection between debugging processes and the...","PeriodicalId":45844,"journal":{"name":"Computer Science Education","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139508918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yi Liu, Leen-Kiat Soh, Guy Trainin, Gwen Nugent, Wendy M. Smith
{"title":"Investigating relationships of sentiments, emotions, and performance in professional development K-12 CS teachers","authors":"Yi Liu, Leen-Kiat Soh, Guy Trainin, Gwen Nugent, Wendy M. Smith","doi":"10.1080/08993408.2023.2298162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2023.2298162","url":null,"abstract":"Background and Context: Professional development (PD) programs for K-12 computer science teachers use surveys to measure teachers’ knowledge and attitudes while recognizing daily sentiment and emot...","PeriodicalId":45844,"journal":{"name":"Computer Science Education","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139515492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assisting in a computer science education centre as a field-based internship for pre-service teachers","authors":"Robbert Smit, Clemens Waibel, Rahel Schmid","doi":"10.1080/08993408.2023.2300554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2023.2300554","url":null,"abstract":"To offer more experiences in the field, our study employed secondary school pre-service teachers as assistants in courses for secondary school students learning computer coding with the help of sma...","PeriodicalId":45844,"journal":{"name":"Computer Science Education","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139396903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chen Chen, Jonathan Rothwell, Pedrito Maynard-Zhang
{"title":"In-school and/or out-of-school computer science learning influence on CS career interests, mediated by having role-models","authors":"Chen Chen, Jonathan Rothwell, Pedrito Maynard-Zhang","doi":"10.1080/08993408.2023.2290435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2023.2290435","url":null,"abstract":"Both in- and out-of-school computer science (CS) learning opportunities are expanding, but their influences on CS career interests are unclear.To investigate, we applied multinomial propensity scor...","PeriodicalId":45844,"journal":{"name":"Computer Science Education","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139053338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transforming computer science education: exploration of computer science interest and identity of historically underrepresented youth","authors":"Cassie F. Quigley, Danielle Herro, Holly Plank, Aileen Owens, Oluwadara Abimbade","doi":"10.1080/08993408.2023.2292905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2023.2292905","url":null,"abstract":"Historically underrepresented youth in computer science persistently experience barriers making it difficult to see themselves in the computer science field including computer science programs and ...","PeriodicalId":45844,"journal":{"name":"Computer Science Education","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138685505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning to program as empirical inquiry: using a conversation perspective to explore student programming processes","authors":"Kristina Litherland, Anders Kluge","doi":"10.1080/08993408.2023.2290410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2023.2290410","url":null,"abstract":"We explore the potential for understanding the processes involved in students’ programming based on studying their behaviour and dialogue with each other and “conversations” with their programs.Our...","PeriodicalId":45844,"journal":{"name":"Computer Science Education","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138567899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna van der Meulen, Mijke Hartendorp, Wendy Voorn, Felienne Hermans
{"title":"Observing the computational concept of abstraction in blind and low vision learners using the Bee-bot and Blue-bot","authors":"Anna van der Meulen, Mijke Hartendorp, Wendy Voorn, Felienne Hermans","doi":"10.1080/08993408.2023.2272232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2023.2272232","url":null,"abstract":"In order to fully include learners with visual impairments in early programming education, it is necessary to gain insight into specificities regarding their experience of and approach to abstract ...","PeriodicalId":45844,"journal":{"name":"Computer Science Education","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The efficacy of a computer science curriculum for early childhood: evidence from a randomized controlled trial in K-2 classrooms","authors":"Dandan Yang, Zhanxia Yang, Marina Umaschi Bers","doi":"10.1080/08993408.2023.2279198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2023.2279198","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTBackground and context Despite the growing importance of computer science (CS) education, high-quality CS curricula for students in kindergarten to lower elementary grades are lacking. It is also unclear how students from underrepresented groups such as female students, students from low socioeconomic status, and students with disability respond to CS curriculum at this age range.Objective This study is aimed to examine the effectiveness of a novel CS curriculum (Coding as Another Language – ScratchJr) on the development of programming and computational thinking skills for students in kindergarten to second grade classrooms.Method We conducted a randomized controlled trial with 1057 students and used multilevel regression analysis to examine the impact of the CAL curriculum on students’ coding and computational thinking skills, as well as moderation analysis to investigate how students’ demographic characteristics including gender, socioeconomic status, English learners and disability interacted with the intervention effectiveness.Findings The CAL curriculum was effective in improving students’ programming skills, but no significant differences were detected for students’ computational thinking skills. Students with limited English proficiency and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds achieved similar gain in coding skills but students with disabilities and female students did not demonstrate the same improvements as their peers.Implications These findings shed light on the educational efficacy of CAL as a promising CS curriculum for young children and underscore the importance of understanding how underrepresented minority students respond to the curriculum in order to better guide the development and design of the CS programs.KEYWORDS: computer science educationearly childhoodelementary schoolcomputational thinkingcurriculum AcknowledgmentsWe would like to express our appreciation to the students and teachers who participated in the study, as well as the research assistants and researchers at the DevTech Research group. We would like to also thank the Shaffer Evaluation Group for supervising and monitoring the study design, data collection and evaluation. Additionally, we extend our sincere gratitude to the Scratch Foundation for their invaluable support.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Supplementary materialSupplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2023.2279198Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Department of Education IER program grant # U411C190006.","PeriodicalId":45844,"journal":{"name":"Computer Science Education","volume":"123 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135138479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael Lachney, Madison C. Allen Kuyenga, Jada Phelps, Aman Yadav, Matt Drazin
{"title":"“Everybody’s searching their roots”: centering Black nature-cultures of belonging in non-compulsory computer science education","authors":"Michael Lachney, Madison C. Allen Kuyenga, Jada Phelps, Aman Yadav, Matt Drazin","doi":"10.1080/08993408.2023.2268378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2023.2268378","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTBackground & context Inspired by the nature-cultures of belonging from Black hair care, we conducted a design experiment to bridge computer science (CS) education, urban gardening, and cosmetology in a culturally responsive computing (CRC) library program.Objective The design was oriented around a small-scale aquaponics system to grow mint and lavender for making natural cosmetic products. We hypothesized that this could inform the design and implementation of computational thinking and computer programming educational activities.Methods We analyzed qualitative and quantitative data from the design experiment to theorize the processes of using the aquaponics system to enroll Black nature-cultures of belonging in the CRC program.Findings Given that the program supported children’s self-confidence in and knowledge of CS, nature-culture inspired CS education appears feasible.Implications Through respectful engagement with the discourses and practices of Black hair care, we provide insight into how nature-cultures can contribute to more diverse, inclusive, and pluralistic forms of CS education.KEYWORDS: Computer science educationculturally responsive computingnature-culturesBlack hair careaquaponics AcknowledgmentsWe would like to personally thank William Babbitt, Elizabeth LaPensée, Yolanda Rankin, and Jakita O. Thomas for their support of this work.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Ethical approvalAll procedures in this study that involved human subject research were approved by Michigan State University’s Institutional Review Board.Informed consentInformed consent was obtained from every individual who participated in this study.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Science+Society@State; Joe L. Byers and Lucy Bates-Byers Endowment for Technology and Curriculum.","PeriodicalId":45844,"journal":{"name":"Computer Science Education","volume":"152 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136185389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}