TY - GEN
T1 - A study of high school computer science teacher confidence levels
AU - McInerney, Clare
AU - Exton, Chris
AU - Hinchey, Mike
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Owner/Author.
PY - 2020/10/28
Y1 - 2020/10/28
N2 - There has been a growing body of work emerging about effective professional development (PD) models for CS but less research has been conducted around measuring teachers' noncognitive constructs. It is acknowledged that confidence is an essential element of teacher professional performance. In his work Bandura linked teacher self-efficacy to performance in the classroom. Bandura's self-efficacy theory states that an individual's certainty in his or her own capabilities leads to positive interactions with his or her environments. In this study we share our experiences of measuring teacher confidence levels to teach a CS curriculum. This study shares the learning outcomes teachers have most and least confidence teaching, the tools and technologies teachers have most and least confidence using effectively and how these confidence levels change over a two-year PD programme.
AB - There has been a growing body of work emerging about effective professional development (PD) models for CS but less research has been conducted around measuring teachers' noncognitive constructs. It is acknowledged that confidence is an essential element of teacher professional performance. In his work Bandura linked teacher self-efficacy to performance in the classroom. Bandura's self-efficacy theory states that an individual's certainty in his or her own capabilities leads to positive interactions with his or her environments. In this study we share our experiences of measuring teacher confidence levels to teach a CS curriculum. This study shares the learning outcomes teachers have most and least confidence teaching, the tools and technologies teachers have most and least confidence using effectively and how these confidence levels change over a two-year PD programme.
KW - Computer science education
KW - Self-efficacy, confidence
KW - Teacher professional development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85094966896&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3421590.3421614
DO - 10.1145/3421590.3421614
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85094966896
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 1
EP - 2
BT - Proceedings of the 15th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, WiPSCE 2020
A2 - Brinda, Torsten
A2 - Armoni, Michal
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 15th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, WiPSCE 2020
Y2 - 28 October 2020 through 30 October 2020
ER -