Baltic Sea '06Pub Date : 2006-02-01DOI: 10.1145/1315803.1315826
John Paxton
{"title":"The preference matrix as a course design tool","authors":"John Paxton","doi":"10.1145/1315803.1315826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1315803.1315826","url":null,"abstract":"The preference matrix is a theoretical tool based on principles of evolutionary psychology. This paper briefly introduces the theory and then describes how the preference matrix has been applied as a pedagogical design tool for an artificial intelligence course. After making a preliminary assessment of this experience, the paper concludes with several discussion questions.","PeriodicalId":135065,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Sea '06","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116295753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Baltic Sea '06Pub Date : 2006-02-01DOI: 10.1145/1315803.1315817
Tero Vartiainen
{"title":"Moral conflicts perceived by students of a project course","authors":"Tero Vartiainen","doi":"10.1145/1315803.1315817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1315803.1315817","url":null,"abstract":"Regardless of the popularity of project courses in computing curricula, little is researched on moral issues in these courses. The aim of this study was to increase understanding in this area by determining what students on a project course in information systems (IS) perceived as moral conflicts. Data was gathered from diaries, drawings, interviews and questionnaires, and the analysis was inspired by phenomenography. The results show that the hardest moral conflicts were confronted when a student acted in a project manager's role, and that many originated in problems related to the group process. A two-dimensional structure of moral conflicts was found. The results are considered in the light of the existing literature, and implications for research and practice are presented.","PeriodicalId":135065,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Sea '06","volume":"516 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116229136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Baltic Sea '06Pub Date : 2006-02-01DOI: 10.1145/1315803.1315814
Simon, Michael de Raadt, Ken Sutton, A. Venables
{"title":"The distinctive role of lab practical classes in computing education","authors":"Simon, Michael de Raadt, Ken Sutton, A. Venables","doi":"10.1145/1315803.1315814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1315803.1315814","url":null,"abstract":"As part of a wide-ranging phenomenographic study of computing teachers, we explored their varying understandings of the lab practical class and discovered four distinct categories of description of lab practicals. We consider which of these categories appear comparable with non-lecture classes in other disciplines, and which appear exclusive to computing. An awareness of this range of approaches to conducting practical lab classes will better enable academics to consider which is best suited to their own purposes when designing courses.","PeriodicalId":135065,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Sea '06","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116614939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Baltic Sea '06Pub Date : 2006-02-01DOI: 10.1145/1315803.1315832
E. Eremin
{"title":"Educational Pascal compiler into MMIX code","authors":"E. Eremin","doi":"10.1145/1315803.1315832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1315803.1315832","url":null,"abstract":"The pedagogical software tool, visualizing translation from Pascal into machine codes, is described. The basic aim of the present work was to create software, distinctly demonstrating students the close unity of the contents of two fundamental CS courses --- programming and computer architecture.","PeriodicalId":135065,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Sea '06","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128789037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Baltic Sea '06Pub Date : 2006-02-01DOI: 10.1145/1315803.1315805
L. Barker, K. Garvin-Doxas, Michele H. Jackson
{"title":"Defensive climate in the computer science classroom","authors":"L. Barker, K. Garvin-Doxas, Michele H. Jackson","doi":"10.1145/1315803.1315805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1315803.1315805","url":null,"abstract":"As part of an NSF-funded IT Workforce grant, the authors conducted ethnographic research to provide deep understanding of the learning environment of computer science classrooms. Categories emerging from data analysis included 1) impersonal environment and guarded behavior; and 2) the creation and maintenance of informal hierarchy resulting in competitive behaviors. These communication patterns lead to a defensive climate, characterized by competitiveness rather cooperation, judgments about others, superiority, and neutrality rather than empathy. The authors identify particular and recognizable types of discourse, which, when prevalent in a classroom, can preclude the development of a collaborative and supportive learning environment.","PeriodicalId":135065,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Sea '06","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125499739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}