How we teach impacts student learning: Peer instruction vs. lecture in CS0

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 41-46

  Spacco, Jaime ^a   Parris, Julian ^b   Simon, Beth ^b  

^a KNOX COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Active Learning; Peer Instruction; Student Centric Learning

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LEARNING; HIGH SCHOOL; INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS; MAIN EFFECT; PEER INSTRUCTION; SEPARATE ANALYSIS; STUDENT LEARNING; STUDENT-CENTRIC LEARNING;

CURRICULA; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84876259348     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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