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Student Concerns Regarding Transition into Higher Education CS

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Angela A. Siegel,

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ITiCSE '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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This paper discusses a study where 249 students from 18 secondary schools around Scotland who were on the verge of applying to study Computing Science at a higher education institution were surveyed on their concerns about the upcoming transition. Preliminary conclusions from this work point to the fact that this transition process is one that seems to evolve with the student as they progress through their education, and as such, should be treated differently at various stages within that process.

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1. Applied computing
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        CS1

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