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Tiêu đề
Cs 0: Culture and coding
Tác giả
Lionelle A.; Grinslad J.; Beveridge J.R.
Năm xuất bản
2020
Source title
SIGCSE 2020 - Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
Số trích dẫn
3
DOI
10.1145/3328778.3366795
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
In 2018, Colorado State University redesigned their CS-0 course to become a general education requirement for the university within Arts and Humanities, and a guaranteed transfer course across the state for a similar category in other universities. The first CS course in the State to be accepted as a GT-Pathway course. This redesign had to be carefully done due to a need to introduce liberal arts style topics such as CS History, Philosophy and Ethics and Inclusive Design issues, while maintaining current coding and student success standards that were already expected for the CS-0 at the university. We termed this combination as Culture and Coding. In order to add more without reducing retention, the course was redesigned around the Psychology of Learning and spacing of topics in a Spiral Manner. Each topic was briefly introduced, and throughout the semester, students would dive deeper into the topics. This allowed for a 50% reduction of time focused on teaching coding topics, with students performing equivalent on exams compared to previous models of the course that focused 100% of the time on coding topics. Furthermore, students taught by the spiral teaching method outperformed students taught using traditional methods in the follow-on course. Our evaluation suggests that the spiral model of teaching computer science may allow for greater retention of topics, allowing classes to either cover additional concepts or go more in depth on current topics. © 2020 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM.
Từ khóa
Computing education; Course design; Cs0; Spaced-based recall
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