What makes CS teachers change? Factors influencing CS teachers' adoption of curriculum innovations

SIGCSE'09 - Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 544-548

  Ni, Lijun ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption factors; Computer Science education; CS teacher

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION FACTORS; COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; CS EDUCATION; CS TEACHER; INNOVATIVE CURRICULA; MULTIPLE FACTORS; NEW APPROACHES; SOCIAL ISSUES; TEACHING PRACTICES; WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; TEACHING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 77952214140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1508865.1509051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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