Publications by authors named "Mohamed Amine Mahhou"
To counteract declining interest in science, contextualizing course material has been suggested, despite little evidence supporting this strategy. We assessed how reading physics problems in different contexts-none, technical, or humanistic-impacted performance and implicit cognitive and affective situational interest (SI) among undergraduate men and women (n = 60). We hypothesized that contextualized problems would increase cognitive SI, boosting performance.
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- Many girls feel they lack natural ability in computer science and have low self-efficacy beliefs for programming.
- Engaging, hands-on programming activities can help boost girls' confidence, but short workshops may not provide the best environment due to time constraints and gender stereotypes.
- A study with 172 students showed that after a 2-hour programming workshop, the initial gender gap in self-efficacy for programming was significantly reduced or eliminated.