Authors share the second report in our series of findings from the Gender Balance in Computing research programme, which they’ve been running as part of the National Centre for Computing Education and with various partners. By Katharine Childs.
In this research programme, funded by the Department for Education in England, we aim to identify ways to encourage more female learners to engage with Computing and choose to study it further.
The study main points are:
- Computing education through a collaborative lens
- Researching collaborative learning in the primary computing classroom
- What can we learn about pair programming from the study?
- Find out more about pair programming
- Collaboration in our research
The evaluators also gathered qualitative data by running teacher and learner interviews and conducting lesson observations, and they were pleased that this data provided some rich insights into the benefits of using a pair programming approach in the primary classroom, and gave some promising indications of possible benefits for female learners in particular. Good read!
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