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Sandie Han; Nadia Stoyanova Kennedy; Diana Samaroo; Urmi Duttagupta – PRIMUS, 2024
This paper describes the implementation of a STEM scholarship program which utilized a holistic approach to providing a multi-dimensional student support system. The program has been successful in encouraging and supporting women in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science by offering a diverse suite of extracurricular opportunities, actively…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Females, Mathematics Education, Computer Science Education
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Chrysafiadi, Konstantina; Virvou, Maria; Tsihrintzis, George A.; Hatzilygeroudis, Ioannis – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Nowadays, the improvement of digital learning with Artificial Intelligence has attracted a lot of research, as it provides solutions for individualized education styles which are independent of place and time. This is particularly the case for computer science, as a tutoring domain, which is rapidly growing and changing and as such, learners need…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Computer Science Education, Programming
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Kathy Dowell; Catherine Snyder; Stephanie Marshall – Grantee Submission, 2025
METRICS was a 5-year grant program funded by the U.S. Department of Education designed to immerse elementary school students in computer science. METRICS components included 1) creation and implementation of rigorous computer science curriculum units and assessments to support STEM coursework connected across all subjects through problem-based…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Elementary School Curriculum, STEM Education, Problem Based Learning
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Fuchs-Kittowski, Frank; Siegeris, Juliane; Freiheit, Jörn – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
This article describes and evaluates the concept of project studies in the part-time master's degree course "Professional IT-Business" at the HTW Berlin. The concept contains several elements which are intended to enable and support work process-integrated learning, or learning in real work processes and projects in companies. The…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Graduate Students, Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning
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Griffiths, Barry J. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2015
For countries to remain competitive in the global economy, it is important to cultivate the next generation of native mathematicians. However, this goal has been increasingly challenging in the United States where, despite the tremendous increase in university enrollment during recent decades, the number of students studying mathematics has…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Mathematics Education, Program Effectiveness, Academically Gifted
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Cutts, Quintin; Robertson, Judy; Donaldson, Peter; O'Donnell, Laurie – Computer Science Education, 2017
This paper describes and evaluates aspects of a professional development programme for existing CS teachers in secondary schools (PLAN C) which was designed to support teachers at a time of substantial curricular change. The paper's particular focus is on the formation of a teacher professional development network across several hundred teachers…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Science Teachers, Network Analysis, Social Networks
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Salmun, Haydee; Buonaiuto, Frank – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2016
The Catalyst Scholarship Program at Hunter College of The City University of New York (CUNY) was established with a four-year award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund scholarships to 40 academically talented but financially disadvantaged students majoring in four disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics…
Descriptors: Scholarships, College Programs, Partnerships in Education, Earth Science
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Hu, Helen H.; Shepherd, Tricia D. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2013
POGIL has been successfully implemented in a scientific computing course to teach science students how to program in Python. Following POGIL guidelines, the authors have developed guided inquiry activities that lead student teams to discover and understand programming concepts. With each iteration of the scientific computing course, the authors…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Programming Languages, Science Instruction
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Walker, Henry M.; Kelemen, Charles – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2010
This article explores the philosophy and position of the discipline of computer science within the liberal arts, based upon a discussion of the nature of computer science and a review of the characteristics of the liberal arts. A liberal arts environment provides important opportunities for undergraduate programs, but also presents important…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Liberal Arts, Computer Science Education, Intellectual Disciplines
Khan, Arshia – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
Integrated curricula and experiential learning are the main ingredients to the recipe to improve student learning in higher education. In the academic computer science world it is mostly assumed that this experiential learning takes place at a business as an internship experience. The intent of this paper is to schism the traditional understanding…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Russell, Ingrid; Markov, Zdravko; Neller, Todd; Coleman, Susan – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2010
Our approach to teaching introductory artificial intelligence (AI) unifies its diverse core topics through a theme of machine learning, and emphasizes how AI relates more broadly with computer science. Our work, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, involves the development, implementation, and testing of a suite of projects that…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Program Effectiveness, Computer Science, Teaching Methods
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Kim, Karen A.; Fann, Amy J.; Misa-Escalante, Kimberly O. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2011
Building on research that identifies and addresses issues of women's underrepresentation in computing, this article describes promising practices in undergraduate research experiences that promote women's long-term interest in computer science and engineering. Specifically, this article explores whether and how REU programs include programmatic…
Descriptors: Females, Disproportionate Representation, Computer Science Education, Engineering Education
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Inceoglu, Mustafa M. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2010
Outreach, as defined by Wikipedia, is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences, or the general public. This paper describes a computer engineering outreach project of the Department of Computer Engineering at Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, to a local…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Outreach Programs, Engineering Education
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Wang, Tiantian; Su, Xiaohong; Ma, Peijun; Wang, Yuying; Wang, Kuanquan – Computers & Education, 2011
Learning to program is a difficult process for novice programmers. AutoLEP, an automated learning and assessment system, was developed by us, to aid novice programmers to obtain programming skills. AutoLEP is ability-training-oriented. It adopts a novel assessment mechanism, which combines static analysis with dynamic testing to analyze student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Program Effectiveness, Learning Experience
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Chang, Chi-Cheng; Tseng, Kuo-Hung; Chou, Pao-Nan; Chen, Yi-Hui – Computers & Education, 2011
This study examined the reliability and validity of Web-based portfolio peer assessment. Participants were 72 second-grade students from a senior high school taking a computer course. The results indicated that: 1) there was a lack of consistency across various student raters on a portfolio, or inter-rater reliability; 2) two-thirds of the raters…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Portfolio Assessment, Validity, Interrater Reliability
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