%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Measuring Learners’ Interest in Computing (Education): Development of an Instrument and First Results
%+ Universität Duisburg-Essen = University of Duisburg-Essen [Essen]
%A Brinda, Torsten
%A Tobinski, David
%A Schwinem, Stefan
%Z Part 3: Computer Science Education and Its Future Focus and Development
%< avec comité de lecture
%( IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
%B 11th IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education (WCCE)
%C Dublin, Ireland
%Y Arthur Tatnall
%Y Mary Webb
%I Springer International Publishing
%3 Tomorrow's Learning: Involving Everyone. Learning with and about Technologies and Computing
%V AICT-515
%P 484-493
%8 2017-07-03
%D 2017
%R 10.1007/978-3-319-74310-3_49
%K Learners’ interest
%K Computing interest
%K Secondary education
%K Questionnaire
%K Empirical study
%K Explorative study
%Z Computer Science [cs]Conference papers
%X So far, there is hardly any empirical research on the question of what raises or influences the interest of school learners in computer science or computing education. Aspects to be considered are for example pedagogical decisions of the teacher concerning contexts, phenomena, situations, or concepts to which a lesson or a lesson sequence refers, planned learner activities and many others. This paper analyses a model for describing interest in physics on its transferability to computer science, reports about the development of an online questionnaire for investigating the computing-related interests of school learners and gives results of a first empirical pilot study (based on N = 141 datasets). Based on the participants’ answers concerning socio-demographical aspects, the computing interest of different groups of learners was analyzed. A higher level of computing interest was found at male pupils, learners who indicated that they were striving for a computing-related job, that computing was their favorite school subject, or that they had good or very good school marks in mathematics or computing.
%G English
%Z TC 3
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01762845/document
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%L hal-01762845
%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01762845
%~ IFIP
%~ IFIP-AICT
%~ IFIP-TC
%~ IFIP-TC3
%~ IFIP-AICT-515
%~ IFIP-WCCE