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Banzato, M., Tosato, P. (2019). Gender Difference in Self-Efficacy for Computational Thinking in K-12. In: Tatnall, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60013-0_193-1

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