Using POGIL to help students learn to program

ACM Transactions on Computing Education

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Hu, Helen H ^a   Shepherd, Tricia D ^a  

^a WESTMINSTER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Inquiry based learning; POGIL; Process skills; Process oriented guided inquiry learning

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LEARNING; GUIDED INQUIRY; INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING; POGIL; PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS; SCIENCE CLASSROOM; STUDENT EVALUATION; TRADITIONAL COMPUTERS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84883569318     PISSN: 19466226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2499947.2499950     Document Type: Article

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