Prior coding experience correlates positively with digital literacy and coding comfort and negatively with perceived task difficulty¶
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q2 i2 Prior coding experience positively correlated with digital literacy (r = .22) and coding comfort (r = .29), and negatively with perceived task difficulty (r = –.22). → Tanya Chichekian 2026
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Tanya Chichekian 2026¶
Tanya Chichekian, Maria Cutumisu, Annie Savard and Yi-Mei Zhang. (2026). Profiling Pre-service Teachers' Computational Thinking: The Role of Metacognition and Coding Experience. Journal of Learning Analytics, 13(1), 31–41. https://doi.org/10.18608/jla.2026.9077
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Correlational analysis of survey and behavioural variables among 128 pre-service teachers (Table 1). The article reports coding experience correlating with digital literacy at "r = .22, p < .05", coding comfort at r = .29, and perceived difficulty at r = –.22; the cognitive-load interpretation is the authors'.
"Prior coding experience (CodExp) positively correlated with digital literacy (CT_DL, r = .22, p < .05) and coding comfort (CT_CD, r = .29, p < .01), but negatively correlated with perceived task difficulty (L_Diff, r = –.22, p < .05), suggesting coding experience enhances CT skills and reduces task -related cognitive load."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Digital Literacy — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
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Prior coding experience correlates positively with digital literacy and coding comfort and negatively with perceived task difficulty |
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Prior coding experience correlates positively with digital literacy and coding comfort and negatively with perceived task difficulty |
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