Data used for the published paper Children’s Interest in a CS Career: Exploring Age, Gender, Computer Interests, Programming Experience and Stereotypes.
In this study, we research the interest children aged 7 to 14 have in a CS career. Additionally, we look into whether children with different characteristics have a different interest in CS. As such our research question: How does children’s interest in a CS career differ based on their a) age, b) gender, c) computer interests, d) programming experience, and e) stereotypical beliefs? We collected data from 200 children in a science museum located in the Netherlands. We gathered data on their gender, age, computer interests, programming experience, stereotypical beliefs and interest in becoming a programmer - as representative of a CS career. We used self-reported closed questions and reduced-length Child Implicit Association Tests.
" authors: - family-names: de Wit given-names: Shirley orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5549-914X" - family-names: Hermans given-names: Felienne orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0722-0156" - family-names: Specht given-names: Marcus - family-names: Aivaloglou given-names: Efthimia orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6531-2166" title: "Dataset for paper Children’s Interest in a CS Career: Exploring Age, Gender, Computer Interests, Programming Experience and Stereotypes" keywords: version: 1 identifiers: - type: doi value: 10.4121/27a0a5c3-30cc-461b-8109-bfba686996ab.v1 license: CC BY 4.0 date-released: 2025-05-26