Visualizing trends in student performance across computer science courses

SIGCSE 2007: 38th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 430-434

  Wortman, Dana ^a   Rheingans, Penny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

CS1; CS2; Retention; Student performance; Visualization

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; VISUALIZATION;

COLOR MAPPING; FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENTS; STUDENT PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 34748899954     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1227310.1227458     Document Type: Conference Paper

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