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Bakke, Christine; Sakai, Rena – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2022
Aim/Purpose: This research aims to describe layering of career-like experiences over existing curriculum to improve perceived educational value. Background: Feedback from students and regional businesses showed a clear need to increase student's exposure to career-like software development projects. The initial goal was to develop an…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Best Practices, Feedback (Response), Computer Science Education
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Liebenberg, Janet; Pieterse, Vreda – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2018
Aim/Purpose: The aims of this study were to investigate the feasibility of automatic assessment of programming tasks and to compare manual assessment with automatic assessment in terms of the effect of the different assessment methods on the marks of the students. Background: Manual assessment of programs written by students can be tedious. The…
Descriptors: Programming, Comparative Analysis, Grades (Scholastic), Evaluation Methods
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Sullivan, Amanda; Bers, Marina Umaschi – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2018
Aim/Purpose: The goal of this paper is to examine whether having female robotics teachers positively impacts girls' performance on programming and robotics tasks Background: Women continue to be underrepresented in the technical STEM fields such as engineering and computer science. New programs and initiatives are needed to engage girls in STEM…
Descriptors: Females, Robotics, STEM Education, Academic Achievement
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Alkazemi, Basem Y.; Grami, Grami M. – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2012
Teaching Polymorphism can be best implemented by using a combination of bottom-up and top-down approaches. However, from our observation and students' self-reporting, the former seems to be the predominant in the Saudi context. We try to investigate whether applying a more balanced approach in teaching the comprehensive concept of Polymorphism…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Programming Languages, Programming
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Sharp, Jason H.; Sharp, Laurie A. – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2017
Aim/Purpose: Compared student academic performance on specific course requirements in a C# programming course across three instructional approaches: traditional, online, and flipped. Background: Addressed the following research question--When compared to the online and traditional instructional approaches, does the flipped instructional approach…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Academic Achievement, Conventional Instruction, Web Based Instruction
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Ali, Azad; Smith, David – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2014
This paper presents a debate between two faculty members regarding the teaching of the legacy programming course (COBOL) in a Computer Science (CS) program. Among the two faculty members, one calls for the continuation of teaching this language and the other calls for replacing it with another modern language. Although CS programs are notorious…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Information Technology, Computer Science Education, Comparative Analysis