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Title: First and Third Graders’ Conceptions of Programmers
Authors: Bofferding, Laura
Aqazade, Mahtob
Chen, Lizhen
Kocabas, Sezai
Haiduc, Ana-Maria
Keywords: Learning and Identity
Issue Date: Jun-2020
Publisher: International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)
Citation: Bofferding, L., Aqazade, M., Chen, L., Kocabas, S., & Haiduc, A. (2020). First and Third Graders’ Conceptions of Programmers. In Gresalfi, M. and Horn, I. S. (Eds.), The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2020, Volume 2 (pp. 827-828). Nashville, Tennessee: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Abstract: To identify early elementary students’ conceptions of programmers, we interviewed 32 first graders and 37 third graders using a draw a programmer test. Students’ responses were roughly split between drawing a person at a computer, drawing a computer only, drawing a person only, or skipping it. Unlike in related studies, students did not have strong gender divisions in their drawings. Future work should focus on how students’ conceptions change over time with programming interventions.
URI: https://doi.dx.org/10.22318/icls2020.827
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