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Peer instruction in computing: the role of reading quizzes

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Daniel Zingaro,

Cynthia Bailey Lee,

Leo PorterAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '13: Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 47 - 52

https://doi.org/10.1145/2445196.2445216

Published: 06 March 2013 Publication History

Abstract

Peer Instruction has recently gained interest in computing as an effective active learning pedagogy. The general focus of PI research has been on the in-class portion of PI: multiple choice questions and group discussion. Here, our focus is the reading quizzes completed by students for purposes of class preparation. These quizzes contain content questions but also ask for difficulties or confusion with course material. Consistent with expectations, we demonstrate that providing correct responses to quiz questions positively correlates with other course assessments. Somewhat counter-intuitively, we find that identifying confusions, noting problematic sections, or asking questions about the reading are also correlated with lab grades.

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Peer instruction in computing: the role of reading quizzes
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education

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