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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
Programming by choice: urban youth learning programming with scratch
This paper describes Scratch, a visual, block-based programming language designed to facilitate media manipulation for novice programmers. We report on the Scratch programming exp...
John H. Maloney, Kylie A. Peppler, Yasmin B. Kafai...
ITICSE
2005
ACM
16 years 3 days ago
Learning styles across the curriculum
Recent research has shown that a student’s learning style – essentially, the way a student approaches and masters new material – can affect student performance in introducto...
A. T. Chamillard, Ricky E. Sward
ACMIDC
2010
15 years 4 months ago
vSked: an interactive visual schedule system for use in classrooms for children with autism
Children with autism often experience substantial challenges in understanding, structuring, and predicting the activities in their daily lives. The use of symbols to represent a s...
Michael T. Yeganyan, Meg Cramer, Lou Anne Boyd, Gi...
GROUP
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
A metrics framework for evaluating group formation
Many approaches to learning and teaching rely upon students working in groups. So far, many Computer-Supported Group Formation systems have been designed to facilitate the formati...
Asma Ounnas, David E. Millard, Hugh C. Davis
WWW
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Authoring of learning styles in adaptive hypermedia: problems and solutions
Learning styles, as well as the best ways of responding with corresponding instructional strategies, have been intensively studied in the classical educational (classroom) setting...
Natalia Stash, Alexandra I. Cristea, Paul De Bra