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Measuring Students' Acceptance and Confidence on Algorithms and Programming: The Impact of the Engagement with CS on Secondary Education
Volume 12, Issue 2 (2013), pp. 207–219
Spyros DOUKAKIS   Michail N. GIANNAKOS   Christos KOILIAS   Panayiotis VLAMOS  

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https://doi.org/10.15388/infedu.2013.14
Pub. online: 15 April 2013      Type: Article     

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15 April 2013

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This paper presents results of a questionnaire focused on investigating students' confidence and behavioral intention in the area of programming, particularly that of structures, problem solving, and programming commands (Conditional - Loop). Responses from 116 1st year students regarding informatics were used. The results indicate that the engagement with programming logic yields a positive impact on students' confidence and acceptance. In addition, all the measured factors are related relatively strongly. Our findings demonstrate that students' prior direction (at Lyceum) has a significant impact on their Confidence for using Programming Commands (CPC) and Confidence for using Data Structures (CDS); however, prior direction does not have any impact on learners Problem Solving Confidence (PSC) and Behavioral Intention (BI) for programming. In the conclusion, several issues regarding the courses of programming are discussed.

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adoption algorithms curriculum data structures Greece programming problem solving

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