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Indriasari, Theresia Devi; Denny, Paul; Lottridge, Danielle; Luxton-Reilly, Andrew – Computer Science Education, 2023
Background and Context: Peer code review activities provide well-documented benefits to students in programming courses. Students develop relevant skills through exposure to alternative coding solutions, producing and receiving feedback, and collaboration with peers. Despite these benefits, low student motivation has been identified as one of the…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Student Motivation, Cooperative Learning, Programming
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Craig, Clay Martin; Brooks, Mary Elizabeth; Bichard, Shannon – International Journal of Listening, 2023
Despite the pervasive nature of podcasts, little research has examined college student's affinity for and motivations to listen to podcasts. This study investigated college students' motivations, attitudes and behaviors in association with podcasts utilizing the appreciative listening framework in conjunction with uses and gratification theory.…
Descriptors: College Students, Handheld Devices, Audio Equipment, Information Dissemination
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Gerbing, David W. – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2021
R and Python are commonly used software languages for data analytics. Using these languages as the course software for the introductory course gives students practical skills for applying statistical concepts to data analysis. However, the reliance upon the command line is perceived by the typical nontechnical introductory student as sufficiently…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses, Programming Languages
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Karnalim, Oscar – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2017
This paper empirically enlists Python plagiarism attacks that have been found on Introductory Programming course assignments for undergraduate students. According to our observation toward 400 plagiarism-suspected cases, there are 35 plagiarism attacks that have been conducted by students. It starts with comment & whitespace modification as…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Introductory Courses, Programming Languages, Taxonomy
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Hew, Khe Foon; Qiao, Chen; Tang, Ying – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
Although massive open online courses (MOOCs) have attracted much worldwide attention, scholars still understand little about the specific elements that students find engaging in these large open courses. This study offers a new original contribution by using a machine learning classifier to analyze 24,612 reflective sentences posted by 5,884…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Man Machine Systems
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Jubas, Kaela; Knutson, Patricia – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2012
This article discusses initial findings from a study exploring the pedagogical functions of popular culture. The study was framed by a neo-Gramscian theoretical framework which connects adult education and cultural studies, and asserts that culture underpins important informal adult learning. We used two television shows, "Grey's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nursing Students, Medical Students, Student Attitudes
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers