Outputs (3)

Pulling your weight?: New CS entrants' reflections on their experience of collaborative work at high school (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bhardwaj, J. (2019, September). Pulling your weight?: New CS entrants' reflections on their experience of collaborative work at high school. Presented at 1st UK & Ireland Computing Education Research Conference, Canterbury, United Kingdom

University CS courses encourage collaborative work to improve engagement, despite the popular perception that CS attracts students who prefer working alone. The aim of this study is to explore new entrants' reflections on their experience of group wo... Read More about Pulling your weight?: New CS entrants' reflections on their experience of collaborative work at high school.

New Entrants' Expectations of the First Year Computer Science Experience in the Context of a New National High School Curriculum (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bhardwaj, J. (2019, July). New Entrants' Expectations of the First Year Computer Science Experience in the Context of a New National High School Curriculum. Presented at ITiCSE '19: Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Aberdeen, UK

Computer science (CS) has the highest first year dropout rate amongst UK undergraduates. In this context, understanding the expectations of new students is a first step to designing a CS curriculum that will improve their first year experience. The a... Read More about New Entrants' Expectations of the First Year Computer Science Experience in the Context of a New National High School Curriculum.

Exploring women's motivations to study computer science (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, S., Sobolewska, E., Bhardwaj, J., & Fabian, K. (2019). Exploring women's motivations to study computer science. In Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education 2018 Conference. https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2018.8658768

This paper presents a study exploring women's decisions, influencers and early experiences of computing to better understand how women's motivations and prior experience affect their decision to study computer science (CS). The emergence of a gender... Read More about Exploring women's motivations to study computer science.