Evaluating the effectiveness of a new instructional approach

Barbara Moskal; Deborah Lurie; Stephen Cooper

doi:10.1145/1028174.971328

Evaluating the effectiveness of a new instructional approach

Barbara Moskal, Deborah Lurie, Stephen Cooper

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This paper describes the evaluation of an NSF-sponsored educational research project. The primary focus of this project was to develop and evaluate a course curriculum designed to improve retention and performance for "at risk" introductory computer science majors. The results of this research suggest that the newly developed course and curriculum materials did improve students' performance and retention in computer science and their attitudes towards computer science.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	75-79
Number of pages	5
Journal	SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)
Volume	36
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1028174.971328
State	Published - Mar 2004
Event	35th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education - Norfolk, VA, United States Duration: Mar 3 2004 → Mar 7 2004

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Animation
CS1
Evaluation
Pedagogy
Study
Visualization

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