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Ahadi, Alireza; Hellas, Arto; Lister, Raymond – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2017
We describe a method for analyzing student data from online programming exercises. Our approach uses contingency tables that combine whether or not a student answered an online exercise correctly with the number of attempts that the student made on that exercise. We use this method to explore the relationship between student performance on online…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Online Courses, Computer Science Education, Programming
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Csernoch, Mária; Biró, Piroska – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2016
Sprego is programming with spreadsheet functions. The present paper provides introductory Sprego examples which have so far only been available in Hungarian. Spreadsheet environments offer both a programming tool which best serves beginner and end-user programmers' interest, and an approach which lightens the burden of coding and language details.…
Descriptors: Programming, Spreadsheets, Instruction, Problem Solving
Executive Office of the President, 2016
As called for in the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, the National Science and Technology Council's (NSTC) Committee on STEM Education (CoSTEM) released, in May of 2013, the Federal Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education 5- Year Strategic Plan (Strategic Plan). As required by the Act, this report includes…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Strategic Planning, Federal Legislation, Educational Research
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Chen, Xianglei; Ho, Phoebe – National Center for Education Statistics, 2012
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields are widely regarded as critical to the national economy. To provide a nationally representative portrait of undergraduate students' experiences in STEM education, these Web Tables summarize longitudinal data from a cohort of first-time, beginning students who started postsecondary…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Postsecondary Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Attrition
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Tsai, Pei-Jin; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Tseng, Judy C. R.; Hwang, Gwo-Haur – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2008
Cooperative learning has been proven to be helpful in enhancing the learning performance of students. The goal of a cooperative learning group is to maximize all members' learning, which is accomplished via promoting each other's success, through assisting, sharing, mentoring, explaining, and encouragement. To achieve the goal of cooperative…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods