The relationships among group size, participation, and performance of programming language learning supported with online forums

Computers and Education

Volumn 62, Issue , 2013, Pages 196-207

  Shaw, Ruey Shiang ^a  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cooperative collaborative learning; Learning communities; Programming and programming languages; Teaching learning strategies

Indexed keywords

ASP.NET; COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; COOPERATIVE/COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; GROUP SIZE; HIGHER LEARNING; LARGE GROUPS; LEARNING COMMUNITY; LEARNING PERFORMANCE; MICROSOFT; ONLINE FORUMS; PARTICIPATION RATE; PROGRAMMING AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOCIAL ACTIVITIES; STUDENT PARTICIPATION; STUDENT-CENTERED; TEACHING/LEARNING STRATEGY;

ADA (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; EXPERIMENTS; STUDENTS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84870201477     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2012.11.001     Document Type: Article

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