Student concerns regarding transition into higher education CS.

Siegel, Angela A.; Zarb, Mark

Abstract

This paper discusses a study where 249 students from 18 secondary schools around Scotland who were on the verge of applying to study Computing Science at a higher education institution were surveyed on their concerns about the upcoming transition. Preliminary conclusions from this work point to the fact that this transition process is one that seems to evolve with the student as they progress through their education, and as such, should be treated differently at various stages within that process.

Citation

SIEGEL, A.A. and ZARB, M. 2016. Student concerns regarding transition into higher education CS. In Proceedings of the 21st Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Innovation and technology in computer science education 2016 conference (ITiCSE 2016), 11-13 July 2016, Arequipa, Peru. New York: ACM [online], pages 23-28. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2899415.2909581

• Conference Name: 21st Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Innovation and technology in computer science education 2016 conference (ITiCSE 2016)
• Conference Location: Arequipa, Peru
• Start Date: Jul 11, 2016
• End Date: Jul 13, 2016
• Acceptance Date: Feb 29, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Jul 11, 2016
• Publication Date: Jul 11, 2016
• Deposit Date: Mar 13, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 13, 2017
• Publisher: ACM Association for Computing Machinery
• Pages: 23-28
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2899415.2909581
• Keywords: Student transitions; Student concerns; Student issues; Quantitative survey; Computer science education; Secondary schools; Higher education
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2209