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Tracking an innovation in introductory CS education from a research university to a two-year college

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Allison Elliott Tew,

Charles Fowler,

Mark GuzdialAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 37, Issue 1

Pages 416 - 420

https://doi.org/10.1145/1047124.1047481

Published: 23 February 2005 Publication History

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Innovations in teaching and learning computer science education can easily be overly-specific to a given institution, or type of institution. For example, an innovation may require special hardware, or may make assumptions about the background of the students. This paper tracks one such innovation, a multimedia-focused introductory computing course, as it moved from a research-focused university to a public two-year college. At both institutions, the new course resulted in dramatically improved retention. Students at the two-year college were even more motivated and more positive about computing after the course than students at the research university. The results suggest ways of approaching innovation that is easily adaptable to other institutions.

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 37, Issue 1

2005

562 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1047124

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SIGCSE '05: Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
February 2005
610 pages
ISBN:1581139977
DOI:10.1145/1047344
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Wanda Dann
Ithaca College
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Tom Naps
University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
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Paul Tymann
Rochester Institute of Technology
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Doug Baldwin
SUNY Geneseo

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