Managing Diversity: Experiences Teaching Programming Principles
Managing Diversity: Experiences Teaching Programming Principles
The majority of university level courses offer a similar experience to all students. However in the teaching of introductory computer programming this practice has become increasingly difficult to justify, due to the widely differing initial experience of students. This paper describes an attempt to provide, at low cost, some level of differing experience depending on the needs of the student. The students were allowed to select for themselves which group to join. The experiment was successful in improving student experience and in demonstrating that the students were capable of selecting appropriate groups.
Differentiated Learning, Learning Programming
Davis, HC
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Carr, LA
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Cooke, EC
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White, SA
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2001
Davis, HC
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Carr, LA
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Cooke, EC
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Davis, HC, Carr, LA, Cooke, EC and White, SA
(2001)
Managing Diversity: Experiences Teaching Programming Principles.
The 2nd LTSN-ICS Annual Conference, London.
28 - 30 Aug 2001.
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The majority of university level courses offer a similar experience to all students. However in the teaching of introductory computer programming this practice has become increasingly difficult to justify, due to the widely differing initial experience of students. This paper describes an attempt to provide, at low cost, some level of differing experience depending on the needs of the student. The students were allowed to select for themselves which group to join. The experiment was successful in improving student experience and in demonstrating that the students were capable of selecting appropriate groups.
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Published date: 2001
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Event Dates: 28 - 30 August 2001
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The 2nd LTSN-ICS Annual Conference, London, 2001-08-28 - 2001-08-30
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Differentiated Learning, Learning Programming
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Web & Internet Science
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Local EPrints ID: 259666
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/259666
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HC Davis
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EC Cooke
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SA White
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