Code Club: bringing programming to UK primary schools through Scratch
- Submitting institution
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The Open University
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 1587332
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.1145/2538862.2538919
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 14)
- First page
- 517
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- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 23 - Education
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Citation count
- 11
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The paper in a top-ranked CS Education conference was the first academic publication about Code Club (https://codeclub.org), an international grass-roots network for teaching programming in primary schools and outside-school clubs (13,000 clubs in 160 countries, reaching 180,000 children per week). The widespread adoption of Code Club was a contributory factor in the change in the school national curricula in all nations of the UK. The work has been cited with respect to introducing programming in schools (Duncan and Bell, 2015), gender bias in school computing (Tsan et al., 2016), and comparisons between block-based and text-based programming (Weintrop and Wilensky, 2017).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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