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ITICSE
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Using student performance predictions in a computer science curriculum
Professors often develop anecdotal guidelines about how each student’s past performance in their academic major relates to their performance in later courses. While these guidel...
A. T. Chamillard
ITICSE
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Learning styles across the curriculum
Recent research has shown that a student’s learning style – essentially, the way a student approaches and masters new material – can affect student performance in introducto...
A. T. Chamillard, Ricky E. Sward
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
114views Education» more  SIGCSE 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Student culture vs group work in computer science
Our industrial advisory boards tell us that our students are well prepared technically, but they lack important group work skills. Simply adding project courses and requiring that...
William M. Waite, Michele H. Jackson, Amer Diwan, ...
ACSE
1998
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Extending HCI in the computer science curriculum
This paper discusses the teaching of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at opposite ends of the Computer Science course curriculum. We provide tips on course content within final-y...
Andy Cockburn, Tim Bell
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 5 months ago
CS 0.5: a better approach to introductory computer science for majors
There are often problems when students enter a course with widely different experience levels with key course topics. If the material is covered too slowly, those with greater exp...
Robert H. Sloan, Patrick Troy