Fiona Mcneill
ABSTRACT
In this poster, we will outline the research we will be doing with our summer school students and our first years to track sense of confidence and belonging for different demographics across first year, and research around how our new pastoral activities are promoting these values within the school.
- K. C. Haynie and S. Packman. 2019. Student computer science attitude survey: CS principles.Retrieved from https://csedresearch.wpengine.com/resources/evaluation-instruments/tool/?id=156(2019).Google Scholar
- E. Höhne and L. Zander. 2019. Sources of Male and Female Students’ Belonging Uncertainty in the Computer Sciences. Frontiers in Psychology 10 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01740Google ScholarCross Ref
- N. Veilleux, R. Bates, C. Allendoerfer, D. Jones, J. Crawford, and T. Floyd-Smith. 2013. The relationship between belonging and ability in computer science. In Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education. 65–70. https://doi.org/10.1145/2445196.2445220Google ScholarDigital Library
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- Developing a sense of confidence and belonging in first-year CS students
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