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Hanrui Gao; Yi Zhang; Gwo-Jen Hwang; Sunan Zhao; Ying Wang; Kang Wang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) education in primary schools has received a great deal of attention globally, and it is thus important to investigate primary school students' perceptions and understanding of AI learning. Therefore, in this study, 673 drawings of conceptions of AI learning by third to sixth grade students were collected. Firstly, a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Artificial Intelligence, Freehand Drawing
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Yuchen Chen; Yun-Fang Tu; Xinli Zhang; Gwo-Jen Hwang – Educational Technology & Society, 2024
As technology-enhanced children's learning has gained wide attention, programmable robots have been gradually introduced in early childhood education. Hence, it would be valuable to understand how young children perceive robot programming learning. Draw-a-picture technique is an ideal method to elicit ideas, thoughts, and feelings for children…
Descriptors: Robotics, Computer Science Education, Gender Differences, Freehand Drawing
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Xu, Zhen; Ritzhaupt, Albert D.; Umapathy, Karthikeyan; Ning, Yang; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Computer Science Education, 2021
Background and context: Researchers have been looking into the complexity of computer science (CS) education and tried to apply rigorous and relevant educational research methods to understand and facilitate the learning experience of students. Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore college students' conceptions of learning CS to shed…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Computer Science Education, Freehand Drawing
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Pantic, Katarina; Clarke-Midura, Jody; Poole, Frederick; Roller, Jared; Allan, Vicki – Computer Science Education, 2018
Stereotypes people hold about computer scientists contribute to underrepresentation in computer science. Perceptions of computer scientists have historically been linked to males and a "nerd" culture, which can lead to lack of interest, particularly for girls. This article presents two studies conducted with two groups of middle…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Computer Science, Disproportionate Representation, Gender Differences
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Wei, Liew Tze; Su-Mae, Tan; Wi, Tay Nuo – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2014
The main objective of this study was to ascertain if the effectiveness of conversational narrations and non-conversational narrations in multimedia environment will be mediated by learners' field dependence and gender. 53 participants (25 field dependent and 28 field independent subjects) were randomly divided to interact with either one of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Gender Differences, Multimedia Instruction, Computer Science Education
Stamper, John, Ed.; Pardos, Zachary, Ed.; Mavrikis, Manolis, Ed.; McLaren, Bruce M., Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2014
The 7th International Conference on Education Data Mining held on July 4th-7th, 2014, at the Institute of Education, London, UK is the leading international forum for high-quality research that mines large data sets in order to answer educational research questions that shed light on the learning process. These data sets may come from the traces…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Data Collection