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FDG
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Questioning video games' influence on CS interest
In this paper, we examine the relationship between digital games and interest in computer science. When we undertook this research, our goal was to expand upon past work that expl...
Betsy James DiSalvo, Amy Bruckman
ACE
2004
186views Education» more  ACE 2004»
14 years 11 months ago
Five Myths of Assessment
This paper describes some issues concerning assessment and the corresponding motivation for students to work in a desired manner. The issues came from studying assessment in the R...
Mats Daniels, Anders Berglund, Arnold Neville Pear...
JCDL
2006
ACM
94views Education» more  JCDL 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Curriculum development for digital libraries
The Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science (VT CS) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (UNC SILS) have launched a c...
Jeffrey Pomerantz, Barbara M. Wildemuth, Seungwon ...
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
100views Education» more  SIGCSE 2002»
14 years 9 months ago
Women in CS and biology
Common departmental characteristics and practices in computer science and biology/life science are compared for 46 departments at 23 Virginia colleges and universities. The goal o...
Joanne McGrath Cohoon
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
116views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Socially relevant computing
In this paper, we introduce socially relevant computing as a new way to reinvigorate interest in computer science. Socially relevant computing centers on the use of computation to...
Michael Buckley, John Nordlinger, Devika Subramani...