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Using Topic Modeling to Extract Pre-Service Teachers' Understandings of Computational Thinking from Their Coding Reflections
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Cutumisu, Maria; Guo, Qi – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2019
Contribution: This paper employs the automatic scoring of short essays as a novel way to determine pre-service teachers' knowledge of and attitudes toward computational thinking (CT) from their written reflections. Implications about designing CT courses for pre-service teachers are discussed. Background: CT is an essential 21st-century competency…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Computation, Reflection, Coding
Introductory Engineering Decision-Making: Guiding First-Year Students to Relativism in Software Design
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Rennick, Christopher; Hulls, Carol C. W.; McKay, Kenneth N. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2019
Contribution: A semester-long, open-ended design project was implemented to promote intellectual development of first-year students while reinforcing event-driven/procedural programming principles. This paper describes this approach, and an evaluation strategy using Perry's model for intellectual development. The results show that students can…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Engineering Education, Active Learning, Student Projects