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Exploring women's motivations to study computer science (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, S., Sobolewska, E., Bhardwaj, J., & Fabian, K. (2018, October). Exploring women's motivations to study computer science. Presented at Frontiers in Education 2018, San Jose, CA, USA

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.

In search of self-efficacy: development of a new instrument for first year Computer Science students (2017)
Journal Article
Bhardwaj, J. (2017). In search of self-efficacy: development of a new instrument for first year Computer Science students. Computer Science Education, 27(2), 79-99. https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2017.1355522

This study explores the changes in Computer Science (CS) students’ self-efficacy between entering study and the end of first year of university. It aims to give course leaders insights into the everyday challenges that affect students’ academic achie... Read More about In search of self-efficacy: development of a new instrument for first year Computer Science students.

Evaluation of the lasting impacts on employability of co-operative serious game-playing by first year Computing students: An exploratory analysis (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bhardwaj, J. (2014, October). Evaluation of the lasting impacts on employability of co-operative serious game-playing by first year Computing students: An exploratory analysis. Presented at IEEE Frontiers in Education

This paper reports a case study of cooperative , small-group, game-based learning by a cohort of undergraduates on a range of computing programmes, during the first trimester of their first year. Game-based learning in the form of a total-enterprise... Read More about Evaluation of the lasting impacts on employability of co-operative serious game-playing by first year Computing students: An exploratory analysis.