Are there any gender differences in students' emotional reactions to programming learning activities?

Novice programmers experience a wide set of emotions when they are learning to program. This exploratory study analyzes the emotions experienced by a group of students when solving diverse programming tasks. The goal was to understand if there are gender differences in the emotions reported by t...

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Autores Principales: Coto, Mayela, Mora, Sonia
Formato: Artículo
Idioma: Inglés
Publicado: Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica 2021
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Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/11056/22090
Sumario: Novice programmers experience a wide set of emotions when they are learning to program. This exploratory study analyzes the emotions experienced by a group of students when solving diverse programming tasks. The goal was to understand if there are gender differences in the emotions reported by the students. A self-report tool to track emotions was used. The results show that, regardless of the type of learning activity, there is a tendency for women to attribute themselves negative emotions to a greater extent, which happens to be the opposite with men. It is concluded that further research is needed to understand the factors that cause these differences.