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SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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Design and evaluation of a computer science and engineering course for middle school girls
A significant focus in the United States recently has been to increase engagement and interest in STEM curricula, particularly among girls and underrepresented minorities [3]. In ...
Gabriela Marcu, Samuel J. Kaufman, Jaihee Kate Lee...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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Teaching computational thinking through musical live coding in scratch
This paper discusses our experience in teaching an interdisciplinary general education course called Sound Thinking that is offered jointly by our Dept. of Computer Science and De...
Alex Ruthmann, Jesse M. Heines, Gena R. Greher, Pa...
ITS
2000
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Further Results from the Evaluation of an Intelligent Computer Tutor to Coach Self-Explanation
We present further results on the educational effectiveness of an intelligent computer tutor that helps students learn effectively from examples by coaching self-explanation
Cristina Conati, Kurt VanLehn
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
Multiparty Equality Function Computation in Networks with Point-to-Point Links
Abstract. In this paper, we study the problem of computing the multiparty equality (MEQ) function: n 2 nodes, each of which is given an input value from {1,
Guanfeng Liang, Nitin H. Vaidya
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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Enhancing undergraduate education: a REU model for interdisciplinary research
This paper presents a successful model for undergraduate research where student participants work on interdisciplinary research projects; in our case, at the frontier between comp...
Daniela Stan Raicu, Jacob D. Furst