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SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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What makes CS teachers change?: factors influencing CS teachers' adoption of curriculum innovations
Computer Science (CS) education researchers hope their research has real impact on teaching practices. Developers of innovative curricula and tools for CS education want teachers ...
Lijun Ni
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
A case study of retention practices at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Computer science is seeing a decline in enrollment at all levels of education. One key strategy for reversing this decline is to improve methods of student retention. This paper, ...
Tanya L. Crenshaw, Erin W. Chambers, Heather Metca...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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Implications of integrating test-driven development into CS1/CS2 curricula
Many academic and industry professionals have called for more testing in computer science curricula. Test-driven development (TDD) has been proposed as a solution to improve testi...
Chetan Desai, David S. Janzen, John Clements
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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A CS unplugged design pattern
"Computer Science (CS) Unplugged"is an educational method for introducing non-specialists to concepts of CS through hands-on activities that don't require the use o...
Tomohiro Nishida, Susumu Kanemune, Yukio Idosaka, ...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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A history of computing course with a technical focus
Many courses on the history of computing are designed for a general student audience, and as such, include fewer technical details than one might find in a typical CS course. Whi...
Geoffrey M. Draper, Robert R. Kessler, Richard F. ...