Teaching K-6 Computer Science: Teacher and Student Attitudes and Self-Efficacy

This article-format dissertation addresses elementary student and teacher attitudes and self-efficacy for computer science. The first article (Mason & Rich, in press) describes what the literature says about preservice and inservice training to help K-6 teachers increase knowledge and self-effic...

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Main Author: Mason, Stacie Lee
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2019
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Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/9074
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10083&context=etd
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Summary:This article-format dissertation addresses elementary student and teacher attitudes and self-efficacy for computer science. The first article (Mason & Rich, in press) describes what the literature says about preservice and inservice training to help K-6 teachers increase knowledge and self-efficacy to teach computer science. The second article (Mason, West, & Leary, under review) describes an effort to provide training for local elementary school teachers to teach computational thinking with robots. The third article (Mason & Rich, under review) describes how we developed and validated an instrument to assess K-8 students' coding attitudes and beliefs, including perceived self-efficacy, interest, utility value, gender stereotypes, cultural stereotypes, and social value.