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Life in classrooms (1968)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
|---|---|
| Author | Waite, William M. Jackson, Michele H. Diwan, Amer |
| Description | Concepts taught in large, lower-division computer science courses are carefully explained in standard textbooks. Thus we hypothesized that the classroom experience should not consist primarily of a restatement of those explanations by the professor. Instead, it should provide an opportunity for the students to learn through a process of conversation among themselves and with the professor. We were able to establish such a process in a sophomore-level course with an enrollment of 116 students. This change led to a doubling of the percentage of A and A- grades compared to historical values. In 34rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE |
| File Format | |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
| Publisher Date | 1968-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Standard Textbook Lower-division Computer Science Course Historical Value Sophomore-level Course Classroom Experience |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
