Our failing students: A study of a repeat group

Proceedings of the Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education, ITiCSE

Volumn Part F129252, Issue , 1998, Pages 223-227

  Sheard, Judy ^a   Hagan, Dianne ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Failure rates; Introductory programming; Student motivation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MOTIVATION; SURVEYS; TEACHING;

FAILURE RATE; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING COURSE; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; RETENTION RATE; STUDENT MOTIVATION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84869122661     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/282991.283550     Document Type: Conference Paper

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