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Pedagogical Transformations in the UBC CS Science Education Initiative Acton, Donald; Voll, Kimberly; Wolfman, Steven; Yu, Benjamin

Abstract

The UBC CS Science Education Initiative (CSSEI) has resulted in a number of research projects. New teaching methods and student assessment instruments are introduced to engage student learning and evaluations of their understanding. In this paper, we report four of these recent initiatives and their initial findings.

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Pedagogical Transformations in the UBC CS Science Education Initiative
Creator
Acton, Donald; Voll, Kimberly; Wolfman, Steven; Yu, Benjamin
Contributor
University of British Columbia. Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems
Publisher
ACM
Date Issued
2009-05-01
Description
The UBC CS Science Education Initiative (CSSEI) has resulted in a number of research projects. New teaching methods and student assessment instruments are introduced to engage student learning and evaluations of their understanding. In this paper, we report four of these recent initiatives and their initial findings.
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7520677 bytes; 78667 bytes
Subject
Computer education; Grade analysis; Survey analysis; Code understanding; Transformation; Computer Science
Genre
Article; Conference Paper
Type
Text
File Format
application/pdf; application/pdf
Language
eng
Date Available
2009-06-09
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0051029
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/8884
Affiliation
Science, Faculty of; Computer Science, Department of
Citation
Acton, D., Voll, K., Wolfman, S., and Yu, B. 2009. Pedagogical transformations in the UBC CS science education initiative. In Proceedings of the 14th Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, May 01 - 02, 2009). R. Brouwer, D. Cukierman, and G. Tsiknis, Eds. WCCCE '09. ACM, New York, NY, 3-8.
Publisher DOI
10.1145/1536274.1536280
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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