Author ORCID Identifier
Tuba Ketenci: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1665-9884
Brendan Calandra: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9216-9353
Lauren Margulieux: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8800-2398
Jonathan Cohen: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7278-798X
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-24-2018
Abstract
This study, which took place during a 7-week middle school computing course, used structural equation modeling to examine the overall cumulative relationship between self-efficacy, interest, and prior computing experience and students’ computer science learning outcomes. The findings indicated that 52% of the variance of student success, measured by a computational thinking quiz and rubric-based evaluations of participants’ computing artifacts, was related to the aforementioned learner characteristics. These findings have implications for theory and practice and suggest that future research and instructional design practice in K-12 computing education should take these learner characteristics into account.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/15391523.2018.1553024
Recommended Citation
Ketenci, T., Calandra, B., Margulieux, L. & Cohen, C. (2019). The Relationship between learner characteristics and student outcomes in a middle school computing course: An exploratory analysis using structural equation modeling. Journal of Research on Technology in Education. 51(1), 63-76. https://doi.org/10.1080/15391523.2018.1553024
Comments
This is an accepted manuscript version of the article accepted for publication in the Journal of Research on Technology in Education. 51(1), 63-76. https://doi.org/10.1080/15391523.2018.1553024