Manipulating mindset to positively influence introductory programming performance

SIGCSE'10 - Proceedings of the 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 431-435

  Cutts, Quintin ^a   Cutts, Emily ^b   Draper, Stephen ^a   O'Donnell, Patrick ^a   Saffrey, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre for Confidence and Well being   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudinal; CS0; CS1; Debugging; Dweck; Growth mindset; Novice programmers; Programming; Self theories

Indexed keywords

CRIB SHEETS; FEEDBACK MESSAGES; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING; NOVICE PROGRAMMER;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77952204900     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1734263.1734409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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