Students learn CS in different ways insights from an empirical study

ITiCSE06 - Proceedings of the 11th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 265-269

  Berglund, Anders ^a   Wiggberg, Mattias ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Computer science education research; Phenomenography; The act of learning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION RESEARCH; INTERVIEWS; LEARNING OUTCOME; PHENOMENOGRAPHY;

EDUCATION;

EID: 33748957010     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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