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Download full textHymers, Devin; Newton, Genevieve – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
Educational techniques that improve student engagement have repeatedly been shown to improve performance at the class level at many institutions and in multiple disciplines. However, knowledge of engagement in individual activities in large first-year classes, where there may be several subpopulations of students in different programs reflecting…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Majors (Students), Student Attitudes, Active Learning
Direct linkZingaro, Daniel – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2015
Computer Science 1 (CS1), the first course taken by college-level computer science (CS) majors, has traditionally suffered from high failure rates. Efforts to understand this phenomenon have considered a wide range of predictors of CS success, such as prior programming experience, math ability, learning style, and gender, with findings that are…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Student Interests, College Students, Grades (Scholastic)
Stewart, Peter C. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
With the burgeoning influence of cognitive neuroscience in the field of psychology, it is important to train, or at least expose, undergraduate psychology students to the discipline's methods. Unfortunately, many instructors are limited in their ability to provide such tangible experiences due to resource limitations. However, recent advances in…
Descriptors: Brain, Diagnostic Tests, Physiology, Cognitive Psychology
