Improving first-year success and retention through interest-based CS0 courses

SIGCSE'12 - Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 589-594

  Haungs, Michael ^a   Clark, Christopher ^a   Clements, John ^a   Janzen, David ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cornerstone; CS0; CS1; motivation; self efficacy

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; CAL POLY; COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS; CORNERSTONE; CS0; CS1; FIRST-YEAR; INITIAL ASSESSMENT; PROJECT BASED LEARNING; RETENTION RATE; SELF EFFICACY; STUDENT RETENTION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; MOTIVATION; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84858973709     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2157136.2157307     Document Type: Conference Paper

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