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Using a Student Consultant in a Computer Science Course: An Experience Report

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ITiCSE '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Pages 89 - 94

https://doi.org/10.1145/2899415.2899434

Published: 11 July 2016 Publication History

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This paper describes the experience of using a student consultant in a sophomore level computer science course. A student consultant is a student who is not enrolled in the course, but attends selected class sessions and provides feedback on the in-class experience to the instructor, with the goal of improving some aspect of the course. In this paper we describe our experience with such a program from the point of view of both the instructor and the student consultant. We provide our views of the experience with the dual goals of making student consultant programs better known within the computer science education community, and to provide guidance and insight to those who may wish to use such a program themselves.

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July 2016

394 pages

ISBN:9781450342315

DOI:10.1145/2899415

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Alison Clear
Eastern Institute of Technology, New Zealand
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San Pablo Catholic University, Peru
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University of Kent, UK
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Yvan Tupac
San Pablo Catholic University, Peru

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