Saying isn't necessarily believing: Influencing self-theories in computing

ICER'08 - Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on International Computing Education Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 173-184

  Simon, Beth ^a   Hanks, Brian ^b   Murphy, Laurie ^c   Fitzgerald, Sue ^d   McCauley, Renée ^e   Thomas, Lynda ^f   Zander, Carol ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FORT LEWIS COLLEGE   (United States)

^c PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e School of Business   (United States)

^f ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudinal; Cs0; Cs1; Debugging; Dweck; Growth mindset; Likert; Novice programmers; Programming; Self theories

Indexed keywords

GROWTH (MATERIALS); STUDENTS; SURVEYS;

ATTITUDINAL; CS0; CS1; DEBUGGING; DWECK; GROWTH MINDSET; LIKERT; NOVICE PROGRAMMERS; PROGRAMMING; SELF-THEORIES;

PROGRAMMING THEORY;

EID: 59249089051     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1404520.1404537     Document Type: Conference Paper

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