Malallah, S., & Alfailakawi, S., & Weese, J. L. (2020, June), A Replicate Study: Adoption of a STEM Outreach Program in Kuwait  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--34042

\bibitem{asee_peer_34042}
  Malallah, S., \& Alfailakawi, S., \& Weese, J. L. (2020, June), \emph{A Replicate Study: Adoption of a STEM Outreach Program in Kuwait}
  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line .
  10.18260/1-2--34042

Safia Malallah, Salah Alfailakawi, and Joshua Levi Weese.  "A Replicate Study: Adoption of a STEM Outreach Program in Kuwait".  2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2020.  https://peer.asee.org/34042 Internet.  26 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_34042}
  Safia Malallah, Salah Alfailakawi, and Joshua Levi Weese.
  "A Replicate Study: Adoption of a STEM Outreach Program in Kuwait".
  \emph{2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2020.
  https://peer.asee.org/34042 Internet.  26 Apr, 2024

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AB  - Kuwaiti K-12 computer science (CS) curriculum, centrally focuses on computer literacy and secondarily on programming in public schools. Though it is essential to concentrate on the understanding of Computational Thinking (CT) before beginning with the actual coding, it's imperative to foster CT concepts into the Kuwaiti curricula to improve students' understanding of CS. This will assist them in undertaking more challenging jobs or schools. The CT concepts can be concisely introduced to Kuwait through a successful STEM outreach program. This paper examines the problems that occur from translating and adapting a STEM outreach program from the USA to Kuwait, how to resolve the obstacles that arise from adopting the program by Kuwaiti students, and then compares the understanding of the concepts that the program teaches between Kuwaiti and US students. We decided on the STEM outreach program that was built to help 5th-9th grade students who have no background skills in CS. For this study, we chose to use this program's microcontrollers curriculum to test the capability of the students to learn CT concepts. To cope with the challenges of transferring this program, we had to translate it into Arabic and adjust its schedules. In doing so, we tried to make sure that these changes did not alter the study in any significant way. To measure students' adoption of the CT concepts, we carried out a pre-post self-efficacy survey. This was the first time Kuwaiti students were introduced to this type of assessment; this meant that the students faced some confusion about some of the concepts. Some of these concepts sounded familiar to them, but many did not. Additionally, students' acumen for the survey is highly influenced by their culture. Despite these barriers, the students' ability to think computationally was improved. The statistical comparison between Kuwait and the USA shows that the scores of the USA are higher; still, both countries have gained knowledge. Kuwaiti females were statistically higher than USA females over CT abilities. Thereby, the investigation concludes that the STEM outreach program was effective at promoting the CT concepts in Kuwait
AU  - Safia Malallah
AU  - Salah Alfailakawi
AU  - Joshua Levi Weese
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DA  - 2020/06/22
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - A Replicate Study: Adoption of a STEM Outreach Program in Kuwait
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DO  - 10.18260/1-2--34042
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