Piloting Computer Science Education Week in Mexico

Escherle, Nora; Ramirez-Ramirez, Silvia I.; Basawapatna, Ashok; Assaf, Dorit; Repenning, Alexander; Maiello, Carmine; Endo, Yasko; Nolazco-Flores, Juan Arturo

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“…As the main tools of the Scalable Game Design curriculum [51,86], AgentSheets and AgentCubes include the mechanisms described below. They are being used by students around the world [87,88] and have been tested with respect to cognitive [47] and affective challenges [3].…”

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“…The positive motivational aspects of this activity have already been established on the basis of experiences reported by thousands of students [20]. Notably, this included the first ever CS EdWeek activity launched in Switzerland and a pilot study in Mexico [8] [9]. To support U.S., Mexico and all the participating Swiss cantons, the activity included an embedded tutorial video in English, Spanish, German, Italian, and French.…”

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High profile computer science education events such as the Hour of Code can reach millions of students but without proper evaluation it is not clear what motivational and educational consequences the participation has. If, for instance, participants' levels of motivation towards the end of an hour long activity are significantly fading, then their perception of programming to be "hard and boring" may actually get reinforced. By simply measuring how far participants progressed with their projects we have been able to collect retention data from thousands of participants in a way that allows us to interpret these data in terms of not only cognitive but also technical and practical activity challenges. Inflection points overlaying a negative exponential retention distribution serve as indicators of these challenges with potential impact on Flow. Retention of Flow is an evaluation approach to analyze computer science education activities, including interactive tutorials and online programming environments, with respect to cognitive as well as affective challenges.

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Piloting Computer Science Education Week in Mexico

Abstract: Computer Science Education Week activities, featuring online  programming tools embedded with tutorials, report large participation numbers. However, to truly broaden participation, activities need to be made accessible in international contexts. In 2014,

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