Can peer instruction be effective in upper-division computer science courses?

ACM Transactions on Computing Education

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Lee, Cynthia Bailey ^a   Garcia, Saturnino ^b   Porter, Leo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Classroom response; Clickers; Peer instruction

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LEARNING; CLASSROOM RESPONSE; CLICKERS; COMPUTER SCIENCE COURSE; MATHEMATICAL SOPHISTICATION; MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS; PEER INSTRUCTION; THEORY OF COMPUTATION;

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CURRICULA; DESIGN; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 84883580985     PISSN: 19466226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2499947.2499949     Document Type: Article

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