The impact of real-world topic labs on student performance in CS1

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Reilly, Christine F ^a   De La Mora, Noe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COURSE PERFORMANCE; REAL-WORLD; REAL-WORLD PROBLEM; STUDENT PERFORMANCE; STUDENTS' GRADES; UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - PAN AMERICANS;

LABORATORIES;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84874684600     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2012.6462329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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