Parental Involvement in Computer Science Education and Computing Attitudes and Behaviours in the Home: Model and Scale Development

This work is situated in research on Parental Involvement (PI) Computer Science (CS) Education. While the importance of PI children's education well established, most parents have little experience CS and struggle to facilitate learning a child area. If Education happen, then we argue that need support understanding current behaviours attitudes toward family context important discerning form should take. article therefore describes development an instrument identify factors relating parental motivation for education. Relevant variables computing home were identified using literature review expert focus group. These include usage, availability, confidence, experience. To measure these variables, survey was developed administered large sample ( n = 1228). Results exploratory confirmatory factor analysis confirm measures five constructs, namely “Confidence,” measuring confidence levels with computing; “Attitude PI”; “Motivation two types “Usage”: Creation Consumption. Pearson correlation revealed significant positive relationships between both toward, for, PI, linear regressions confirming predictor both. Regression also creative usage programming attitude to, PI. findings further validated through triangulation qualitative data from groups target population. We conclude this predictors inform design initiatives address engagement