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Showing 1 to 20 of 15687 for “"computer science"”.
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Mixed Method Study of Experiences of Non-Computer Science Majors in Introductory Computer Science Courses
With the unprecedented growth of the Computer Science field, there is an underlying assumption that undergraduate students would naturally gravitate towards Computer Science courses or acquire related skills, irrespective of their career interests. However, this research challenged that assumption, …
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Mental Health in Computer Science. An Investigation of How Mental Health Affects Learning Computer Science
… on programming performance within a first-year Computer Science population. This project had four objectives. First, was to examine the relationship between student anxiety and CS1 programming performance. Second, was to examine the relationship between student stress and CS1 programming …
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Teaching computer science principles using StarLogoTNG
… of the CollegeBoard's Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles course, which has 7 main themes. Each lesson plan has as its focus a subset of learning objectives from one of the themes of Creativity, Data, or Internet, while simultaneously incorporating additional learning goals from …
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Explaining Gendered Participation in Computer Science Education
Amongst scientific fields, computer science (CS) is the only one in which the percentage of women undergraduates has decreased since the 1980s; in the US and Canada, this percentage has hovered around 15%. Since the 1990s, a great deal of effort and resources have been put toward trying to improve …
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Adaptive serious games for computer science education
Serious games have the potential to effectively engage students to learn, however, these games tend to struggle accommodating learners with diverse abilities and needs. Furthermore, customizing a serious game to the individual learner has historically required a great deal of effort on the part of …
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Improving Introductory Computer Science Education with DRaCO
<p>Today, many introductory computer science courses rely heavily on a specific programming language to convey fundamental programming concepts. For beginning students, the cognitive capacity required to operate with the syntactic forms of this language may overwhelm their ability to formulate a …
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Belonging in Computer Science : the effects of Covid-19 on dropouts among women and non-binary students in Computer Science
Covid-19 faraldurinn hafði mikil áhrif á heiminn og háskólanám tók á sig aðra mynd með fjarkennslu. Faraldurinn hafði mikil áhrif á nemendur innan tölvunarfræðinnar. Brottfall kvenna og kynsegin er mikilvægt viðfangsefni þar sem þeir hópar eru í minnihluta í geiranum og mikilvægt er að kanna hvað …
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A case study in refactoring computer science education
… and conceptions of teaching and learning held by computer science lecturers in a single school of computer science in a third level educational institute in Ireland. The study first investigated how lecturers considered their practice to align or diverge from their beliefs and conceptions and the …
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Disdoc: AI Teaching Assistant for Computer Science Courses
As enrollment in Computer Science grows, traditional help-seeking opportunities for students, such as office hours and forums, become less effective due to rising student-to-teaching assistant ratios. To address this issue, research has investigated large language models (LLMs) to provide …
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Computer Science To Go (CS2Go): Developing a course to introduce and teach Computer Science and Computational Thinking to secondary school students
Computer Science To Go (CS2Go) is a course designed to teach Transition Year Students about Computer Science and Computational Thinking. This project has been conducted over two years and this thesis charts the development of the course from the initial research stage, through the lesson creation …
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A Holistic Approach to Building Resilient Computer Science Pathways: Exploring Gender, Engagement, and Attrition in Computer Science from Academia to Industry
… are increasingly essential, yet the field of computer science (CS) continues to struggle with high attrition rates in both academia and industry. This persistent issue contributes to a growing shortage of qualified professionals, with millions of computer science positions in the U.S. …
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Women's Persistence in Computer Science: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study
… the factors underlying women's persistence in computer science. Fifteen women who received a computer science bachelor's degree from a major research university in the Pacific Northwest were longitudinally studied using a qualitative study format. The study design consisted of a series of …
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Two new algorithms for classical problems in computer science
… with problems in two classic algorithm areas in computer science. The first algorithm presents a simple solution to the selection problem. The sequential computing model form of this selection algorithm is presented first followed by a general parallel computing model version; The second …
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Evaluating Creative Choice in K-12 Computer Science Curriculum
<p>Computer Science is an increasingly important topic in K-12 education. Ever since the "computing crisis" of the early 2000s, where enrollment in CS dropped by over half in a five year span, increasing research has gone into improving and broadening enrollment in CS courses. Research shows the …
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Increasing Female Enrollment in High School Computer Science Education
… have played a vital role in the field of computer science and information technology (IT), developing some of the most essential components of modern IT” (Purdue University Global, 2018). Despite their prominence and achievements in these career fields, computer science has experienced a …
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Women in computer science : problems and solutions through technology
… Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February 1999.
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RobotWorld : a simulation environment for introductory computer science education
… Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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Fostering Computer Science Career Interest in Fifth-Grade Students
Computer Science (CS) is among the fastest-growing fields. To fill the abundance of positions in Computer Science, early learning experiences should be implemented to promote interest in the field. This research aims to observe the impact of a design-based computer science treatment on 5th-grade …
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Factors Affecting the Programming Performance of Computer Science Students
… performance of first- and second year Computer Science students were conducted. In one study students used GIL, a simple application framework, for their programming assignments in a second-semester programming course. Improvements in student performance were realized. In the other …
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