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Colin Hennessy Elliott; Jessie Nixon; Alexandra Gendrau Chakarov; Jeffrey B. Bush; Michael J. Schneider; Mimi Recker – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2024
Objectives: Physical computing systems are increasingly being integrated into secondary school science and STEM instruction, yet little is known about how teachers, especially those with little background and experience in computing, help students during the inevitable debugging moments that arise. In this article, we describe a framework,…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Troubleshooting, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students
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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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Goode, Joanna; Margolis, Jane – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2011
This article will detail efforts to broaden participation in computing in urban schools through a comprehensive reform effort of curricular development, teacher professional development, and policy changes. Beginning with an account of the curricular development of "Exploring Computer Science", we will describe the inquiry-based research…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Urban Schools, Educational Change, Case Studies