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JCDL
2009
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Science teachers' use of online resources and the digital library for Earth system education
A three-part study of teachers’ use of online resources and of the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) was conducted from 2004 through summer 2006. The first two ...
Lecia Jane Barker
CAD
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Editorial to special issue: CAD education
Nickolas S. Sapidis, Myung-Soo Kim
ACMSE
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Towards a "humans-first" computer science curriculum
Traditionally, computer science education has considered “objects-first” or “imperative-first” approaches, with the focus of the course on teaching design of programs star...
D. Scott McCrickard, Charles J. Fowler, Christa M....
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
98views Education» more  SIGCSE 2005»
14 years 4 months ago
A multi-institutional investigation of computer science seniors' knowledge of programming concepts
Research on learning suggests the importance of helping students organize their knowledge around meaningful patterns of information. This paper reports on a multi-institutional st...
Laurie Murphy, Renée McCauley, Suzanne West...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
212views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
14 years 11 months ago
Using peer-led team learning to increase participation and success of under-represented groups in introductory computer science
This paper describes the implementation and evaluation of a program that uses active recruiting and peer-led team learning to try to increase the participation and success of wome...
Susan Horwitz, Susan H. Rodger, Maureen Biggers, D...