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Development and validation of the Computer Science Attitudes Scale for middle school students (MG-CS attitudes)
- Award ID(s):
- 1640141
- PAR ID:
- 10169589
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Computers in Human Behavior Reports
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- C
- ISSN:
- 2451-9588
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 100018
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- Journal Article:
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2020.100018
