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...
Autores Principales: | Coto, Mayela, Mora, Sonia |
---|---|
Formato: | Artículo |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica
2021
|
Materias: | |
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. |
---|