Action Research as a Tool for Promoting Teacher Awareness of Students' Conceptual Understanding

Proceedings of the Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiSCE)

Volumn 8, Issue , 2003, Pages 144-148

  Haberman, Bruria ^a,b   Lev, Ela ^c   Langley, Dorothy ^b  

^a HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c Kerrary College   (Israel)

Author keywords

Computer Science Curriculum; In Service Teacher Training; Teacher Change

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EDUCATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STUDENTS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CURRICULA; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; TEACHING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE CURRICULA; IN SERVICE TEACHER TRAINING; TEACHER CHANGES;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE CURRICULUM; IN SERVICE TEACHER TRAINING; TEACHER CHANGE; TEACHER EVALUATION;

EID: 1542287545     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/961511.961552     Document Type: Conference Paper

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