Retaining nearly one-third more majors with a trio of instructional best practices in CS1

SIGCSE 2013 - Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 165-170

  Porter, Leo ^a   Simon, Beth ^b  

^a SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Active Learning; Contextualized Computing; Pair Programming; Peer Instruction; Student Centric Learning

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

ACTIVE LEARNING; BEST PRACTICES; CONTEXTUALIZED COMPUTING; INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNS; PAIR-PROGRAMMING; PEER INSTRUCTION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84876210954     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2445196.2445248     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. Crouch, C. H., and Mazur, E. Peer instruction: Ten years of experience and results. American Journal of Physics 69. 2001.
2. Cutts, Q., Esper, S., and Simon, B. Computing as the 4th "R": a general education approach to computing education. In Proceedings of the seventh international workshop on Computing education research. 2011.
3. Forte, A., Guzdial, M. Motivation and nonmajors in computer science: identifying discrete audiences for introductory courses. IEEE Trans on Education, 48(2). 2005.
4. Guzdial, M. and Ericson, B. Introduction to computing and programming with java: a multimedia approach. Prentice-Hall. 2007.
5. McDowell, C., Werner, L., Bullock, H. E., Fernald, J. Pair programming improves student retention, confidence, and program quality. Commun. ACM 49, 8, 90-95. 2006.
6. Porter, L., Bailey-Lee, C., Simon, B., Cutts, Q., and Zingaro, D. Experience report: a multi-classroom report on the value of peer instruction. In proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. 2011.
7. Porter, L., Bailey-Lee, C. Simon, B., Zingaro, D. Peer instruction: do students really learn from peer discussion? In the 7th Annual International Computing Education Research Workshop. 2011.
8. Simon, B. http://www.peerinstruction4cs.org/
9. Simon, B., Kinnunen, P., Porter, L., Zazkis, D. Experience report: CS1 for majors with media computation. In Proc. of 15th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. 2010.
10. Simon, B., Kohanfars, M., Lee, J, Tamayo, K., and Cutts, Q. Experience report: peer instruction in introductory computing. In Proceedings of the 41st SIGCSE technical symposium on computer science education, 2010.
11. Snyder, L. Barnes, T., Garcia, D., Paul, J., and Simon, B. The first five computer science principles pilots: summary and comparisons. ACM Inroads 3, 2, 54-57. 2012.
12. Tobias, S. They're not dumb, they're different: stalking the second tier. Research Corporation, Tucson. 1990.