Challenging the advanced first-year student's learning process through student presentations

Third International Computing Education Research Workshop, ICER'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 17-26

  Kaczmarczyk, Lisa C ^a   Boutell, Matthew R ^b   Last, Mary Z ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ROSE HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN BAYLOR   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced students; Communication; Peer learning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA REDUCTION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; TEACHING;

PEER LEARNING; STUDENT PRESENTATIONS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 38849100223     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1288580.1288583     Document Type: Conference Paper

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