Influence of students' career interests on perceived difficult concept in computer studies in Ghanaian and Nigerian secondary schools.
There have been few studies on students' difficulty in the computer studies curriculum of African senior secondary schools. This study attempts to fill this gap by investigating the concepts students find difficult in the Ghanaian and Nigerian computer science curriculum and the influence of student...
| Publicado en: | Humanities & Social Sciences Communications Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 1 - 7 |
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6/14/2022
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