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The first Dutch dissertation concerning CS education was by Saeli (2012), built on publications with Perrenet, Jochems, and Zwaneveld (2011, 2102a, 2012b). Saeli et al. studied secondary CS education, specifically programming, from the perspective of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK).
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Zwaneveld, B., Perrenet, J., Bloo, R. (2016). Discussion of Methods for Threshold Research and an Application in Computer Science. In: Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F., Flanagan, M.T. (eds) Threshold Concepts in Practice. Educational Futures. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-512-8_20
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