The effect of CS unplugged on middle-school students' views of CS

Proceedings of the Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education, ITiCSE

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 99-103

  Taub, Rivka ^a   Ben Ari, Mordechai ^a   Armoni, Michal ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Computer science unplugged; K 12 instruction; Views

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDES; COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; LEARNING ACTIVITY; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INNOVATION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77049097398     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1562877.1562912     Document Type: Conference Paper

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