TY - T1 - Pass Rates in Introductory Programming and in other STEM Disciplines SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/315984 T3 - A1 - Simon; Luxton-Reilly, Andrew; Ajanovski, Vangel; Fouh, Eric; Gonsalvez, Christabel; Leinonen, Juho; Parkinson, Jack; Poole, Matthew; Thota, Neena A2 - PB - ACM Y1 - 2019 LA - eng AB - Vast numbers of publications in computing education begin with the premise that programming is hard to learn and hard to teach. Many papers note that failure rates in computing courses, and particularly in introductory programming courses, are higher than their institutions would like. Two distinct research projects in 2007 and 2014 concluded that average success rates in introductory programming courses world-wide were in the region of 67%, and a recent replication of the first project found an... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 113 Computer and information sciences; 516 Educational sciences N1 - PP - ER -