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Conference Paper: In-School and/or Out-of-School Computer Science (CS) Learning Influence on CS Career Interests, Mediated by Having Role Models
| Title | In-School and/or Out-of-School Computer Science (CS) Learning Influence on CS Career Interests, Mediated by Having Role Models |
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| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 13-Apr-2023 |
| Abstract | Both in-school and out-of-school offerings of computer science (CS) learning opportunities are expanding, but their influences on CS career interests are unclear. Applying multinomial propensity score weighting analysis on a year-2021 U.S. national representative sample of 4,107 5-to-12-grade students, we found that having both experiences gave the strongest boost to CS career interest, followed by out-of-school, in-school and none. Out-of-school was the strongest predictor to have CS role-models. One third of the effect of both, and half of the effect of out-of-school or in-school, were mediated by having CS role models. We interpret these findings to suggest that out-of-school CS learning may offer more exposure to CS professionals and real-world challenges, which may foster students’ CS career interests. |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/341799 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Chen, Chen | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Rothwell, Jonathan | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Maynard-Zhang, Pedrito | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-26T05:37:17Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-26T05:37:17Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-04-13 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/341799 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | <p>Both in-school and out-of-school offerings of computer science (CS) learning opportunities are expanding, but their influences on CS career interests are unclear. Applying multinomial propensity score weighting analysis on a year-2021 U.S. national representative sample of 4,107 5-to-12-grade students, we found that having both experiences gave the strongest boost to CS career interest, followed by out-of-school, in-school and none. Out-of-school was the strongest predictor to have CS role-models. One third of the effect of both, and half of the effect of out-of-school or in-school, were mediated by having CS role models. We interpret these findings to suggest that out-of-school CS learning may offer more exposure to CS professionals and real-world challenges, which may foster students’ CS career interests.<br></p> | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Annual Meeting, American Educational Research Association (13/04/2023-16/04/2023, Chicago) | - |
| dc.title | In-School and/or Out-of-School Computer Science (CS) Learning Influence on CS Career Interests, Mediated by Having Role Models | - |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |