BJC in action: Comparison of student perceptions of a computer science principles course
BJC in action: Comparison of student perceptions of a computer science principles course
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BJC 的行动：学生对计算机科学原理课程的看法比较
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2015
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T. Barnes
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T. Price;J. Albert;Veronica Catété;T. Barnes
计算的美丽和乐趣（BJC）是新的AP计算机科学原理课程的课程。在过去的2年里，我们收集了399名参加BJC课程的学生的课后调查。本文探讨了如何从代表性不足的少数民族（URM）的女性和学生的反应不同于他们的同行。我们发现，女学生采取了较少的CS课程之前，BJC，但学生从URMs采取了更多的CS课程。两组人向朋友推荐课程的可能性几乎相同，约80%的人推荐。我们没有发现任何证据表明，女学生对特定的计算机主题表现出或多或少的兴趣，例如学习计算机如何改变世界或制作移动的应用程序/游戏。尽管已经采取了更多的CS课程之前，BJC，我们发现，学生从URMs总体上不太可能打算采取额外的CS课程。总体而言，我们的研究结果是相当一致的文献，并建议BJC在扩大参与计算方面取得了一些进展。
The Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC) is a curriculum for the new AP Computer Science Principles course. Over the past 2 years, we have collected post-course surveys from 399 students participating in the BJC course. This paper investigates how the responses of females and students from underrepresented racial minority groups (URMs) differed from those of their counterparts. We found that female students had taken fewer CS courses prior to BJC but that students from URMs had taken more prior CS courses. Both groups were nearly equally likely to recommend the course to a friend, with about 80% recommending. We found no evidence to suggest that female students showed more or less interest in specific CS topics, such as learning how computing has changed the world or making mobile apps/games. Despite having taken more CS courses prior to BJC, we found that students from URMs were overall less likely to intend to take additional CS courses. Overall, our findings are fairly consistent with the literature, and suggest that BJC makes some progress towards broadening participation in computing.