present 122 99.2 98.4 100.0 Problem is introduced 119 96.7 94.3 99.2 Literature review present 89 72.4 65.9 78.1 Purpose/rationale stated 45 36.6 30.8 42.3 Research questions/hypotheses stated 27 22.0 16.3 27.6 Participants adequately described 56 45.5 39.0 52.0 Setting adequately described 79 64.2 58.5 69.9 Instrument adequately described 66 58.4 52.2 64.6 Procedure adequately described 46 37....

This article builds on the assumption that learning to live in the knowledge society requires creativity; it points out how the school subject of computer science (CS) can contribute to that issue and presents results of a study concerning how students think about CS and creativity after experiencing creative programming. A strong connection between creativity and CS was described by the studen...

Computer scientists are expected to be problem solvers, yet the current structure of algorithm education does not facilitate learning the necessary skills to do so. Learning objectives for algorithm education are defined and Bloom and SOLO taxonomy are employed to evaluate their complexity. Current algorithm curriculum, like that of Michigan State University, is examined and evaluated for e↵ect...

At first glance ancestral knowledge and computer science appear incompatible. Critical ancestral computing—socio-cultural and historical ecosystem approaches to solve complex problems—as an epistemological center for computer science education opens a pathway of critical consciousness, academic success and cultural relevance (Ladson-Billings, 2009). Weaving both disciplines to build a tapestry ...

For many years science educators in Kenyan secondary schools hoped that the use of science apparatus supplied by Science Equipment Production unit (SEPU) would substantially help teachers to provide students with efficient and effective opportunities to learn science, products, and processes. But this has not improved students‟ performances in examinations. Research findings from developed coun...

Bio: Debra J. Richardson is the Ted and Janice Smith Family Foundation Dean and Professor of Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Irvine. She received her PhD in Computer and Information Science at the University of Massachusetts in 1981. She joined the UCI faculty in 1987. Dr. Richardson pioneered research in “specification-based testing”, ...

The versatility and wide applicability of the Abstract State Machines Method for the design and the analysis of computational systems has not yet been fully exploited for teaching. We suggest to use it for introducing basic algorithmic concepts in a succinct and uniform way, which makes the definitions adoptable in traditionally unrelated courses, covering the full range of computing science cu...

Some contemporary or relatively recent articles, studied together, seem to suggest that computer science education is in a state of crisis. But, is it? This article examines the arguments. My preliminary findings is that if you examine the arguments from a positivist stance, you may well infer that there is a crisis, but if you view them from a constructivist perspective, the crisis becomes an ...

Despite general agreement among practitioners and educators alike that the application of solid uniform coding guidelines is beneficial, the application of coding standards in computer science education seem to be problematic. We applied interpretive research to arrive at an understanding of the attitude of leturers towards coding standards. We identified five aspects of coding guidelines throu...

Systems researchers face a challenging responsibility created by the tremendous growth and commercialization of the Internet. On one hand, to keep up with the Internet’s rapid growth rate, commercial interests have relied on “quick fixes” to existing networking technologies. On the other hand, the success of the Internet has greatly raised the expectations of users, which can not be met by rely...