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Download full textChen, Chen; Jeckel, Stuart; Sonnert, Gerhard; Sadler, Philip M. – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2019
This study examines the relationship between students' pre-college experience with computers and their later success in introductory computer science classes in college. Data were drawn from a nationally representative sample of 10,197 students enrolled in computer science at 118 colleges and universities in the United States. We found that…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Academic Achievement, College Students
Direct linkChen, Chen; Sonnert, Gerhard; Sadler, Philip M.; Malan, David J. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2020
Massive open online course (MOOC) studies have shown that precourse skills (such as precomputational thinking) and course engagement measures (such as making multiple submission attempts with assignments when the initial submission is incorrect) predict students' grade performance, yet little is known about whether these factors predict students'…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Assignments, Predictor Variables
Chen, Chen; Haduong, Paulina; Brennan, Karen A.; Sonnert, Gerhard; Sadler, Philip M. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The impact of a novice programmer's first language on their subsequent achievement in further computing education has been the subject of much study in the field of computer science education. Our research is a retrospective study of more than 10,000 undergraduate students enrolled in CS1 (introduction to computer programming) from 118 US college…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Computer Science Education, Novices, Programming
