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Improving hispanic high school student perceptions of computing (abstract only)

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A research study measuring perceptions of computing held by Hispanic high school students has been conducted using two visual programming interfaces. Undergraduates conducted regular weekend classes using both Alice and App Inventor lessons to provide computing instruction to the students enrolled in an enrichment program. The goal of this research was to identify and measure high school student perceptions of computing after being introduced computing using drag-drop programming interfaces. The results of this work demonstrates how student interest in computing increases once exposed to computing, but the interest increment is not enough for them to major in a computing area, highlighting the importance of ongoing engagement in computing throughout the high school years.

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Ericson, B., and McKlin, T., 2012. Sustainable and Effective Computing Summer Camps. Proc. of the 43rd SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, pp. 289--294.
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Roy, K., 2012. App Inventor for Android: Report from a Summer Camp. Proc. of the 43rd SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, pp. 283--288.
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Werner L., Camper S., and Denner J., 2012. Children Learning Computer Science Concepts via Alice Game- Programming. Proc. of the ACM 43rd SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '12), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, pp.427--432.

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      SIGCSE '13: Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
      March 2013
      818 pages
      ISBN:9781450318686
      DOI:10.1145/2445196
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      1. alice
      2. app inventor
      3. computing perception
      4. high school minority students
      5. hispanic students

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