Who participates in computer science education studies? A literature review on K-12 subjects.

ABSTRACT: Computer science education (CSEd) research within K-12 makes extensive use of empirical studies in which children participate. Insight in the demographics of these children is important for the purpose of understanding the representativeness of the populations included. This literature review studies the demographics of subjects included in K-12 CSEd studies. We have manually inspected the proceedings of three of the main international CSEd conferences: SIGCSE, ITiCSE and ICER, of five years (2014-2018), and selected all papers pertaining to K-12 CSEd experiments. This led to a sample of 134 papers describing 143 studies. We manually read these papers to determine the demographic information that was reported on, investigating the following categories: age/grade, gender, race/ethnic backgr

SUBMITTER: van der Meulen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8725654 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature