The impact of instructor initiative on student learning: A tutoring study

SIGCSE'09 - Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 14-18

  Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth ^a   Phillips, Robert ^a,b   Wallis, Michael D ^a,b   Vouk, Mladen A ^a   Lester, James C ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Computing education research; Problem solving; Research study; Teaching strategies; Tutoring

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LEARNING; COMPUTING EDUCATION; RESEARCH STUDY; TEACHING STRATEGIES; TUTORING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESEARCH; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 77956195474     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1508865.1508873     Document Type: Conference Paper

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