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Computer science education research at the crossroads: A methodological review of computer science education research: 2000-2005

This is a dissertation about computer science education research. The abstract follows: Methodological reviews have been used successfully to identify research trends and improve research practice in a variety of academic fields. Although there have been three methodological reviews of the emerging field of computer science education research, they lacked reliability or generalizability. Therefore, because of the capacity for a methodological review to improve practice in computer science education and because the previous methodological reviews were lacking, in this dissertation, a large scale, reliable, and generalizable methodological review of the recent research on computer science education was conducted. The purpose of this methodological review was to have a valid and convincing basis on which to make recommendations for the improvement of computer science education research and to promote informed dialogue about its practice. After taking a proportional stratified sample of 352 articles from a population of 1306 computer science education articles published from 2000 to 2005, each article was coded in terms of their general characteristics; report elements; research method

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