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A Sprint-Based Approach to Teaching Computer Science 基于sprint的计算机科学教学方法

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education Pub Date : 2020-10-07 DOI: 10.1145/3368308.3415384

Brian C. Ricks

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引用次数: 2

Improving Critical Thinking in Software Development via Interdisciplinary Projects at a Most Diverse College 在最多样化的大学中通过跨学科项目提高软件开发中的批判性思维

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education Pub Date : 2020-10-07 DOI: 10.1145/3368308.3415411

Cengiz Günay, Anca Doloc-Mihu, R. Barakat, Thomas Gluick, C. A. Moore

{"title":"Improving Critical Thinking in Software Development via Interdisciplinary Projects at a Most Diverse College","authors":"Cengiz Günay, Anca Doloc-Mihu, R. Barakat, Thomas Gluick, C. A. Moore","doi":"10.1145/3368308.3415411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3368308.3415411","url":null,"abstract":"The software industry has been seeing a steady growth worldwide. However, the quality of the developed software is tightly related to the supply of skilled and capable software developers who are able to cope with many challenges and maintain a high level of critical thinking during the software development life cycle. Software skills are usually gained in upper level software development courses in undergraduate IT majors. We have been applying an active learning methodology for teaching critical thinking in the classroom. Our college is one of the most diverse colleges in the southeast region, which makes our classroom a good model of national diversity. In assessing critical thinking, the traditional and generic approach is to measure skills that are universal and subject-agnostic. In this study, we report that the universal skill assessment for software development is ineffective in measuring students? growth based on inconclusive testing results and a weak test-retest reliability score. We suspect that students were unmotivated by several factors, which includes students being passive listeners and the subject being unrelated to software. In addition, we report a significant potential for developing domain-specific critical thinking exercises and testing that could serve to train the students and to assess their skills at the same time. We would like to emphasize that our conclusion is independent of software development, and could be generalized to develop exercises for other subjects.","PeriodicalId":374890,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117064999","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}

引用次数: 3

The Kessel Run - A Gamification of Visual, Spatial, and Computational Thinking 凯塞尔跑-视觉，空间和计算思维的游戏化

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education Pub Date : 2020-10-07 DOI: 10.1145/3368308.3415450

V. Winter, Kate Sherwin

{"title":"The Kessel Run - A Gamification of Visual, Spatial, and Computational Thinking","authors":"V. Winter, Kate Sherwin","doi":"10.1145/3368308.3415450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3368308.3415450","url":null,"abstract":"Technology can be both a bane and a boon to education. Social media apps and digital games offer rich and highly stimulating forms of engagement outside of the classroom. This level of stimulus has created challenges for traditional educational paradigms and approaches. A promising response is for educators to embrace technology through interactive apps and gamification. This workshop provides hands-on engagement with a collection of freely-available interactive web apps that focus on the development of visual, spatial, and computational thinking. The workshop concludes with participants playing a third-person Unity game in which the (interactive) standalone web apps presented in the workshop have been embedded. The game, inspired by Han Solo's Kessel run, involves a trek across a sequence of platforms located in a galaxy far far away. Teleportation from one platform to the next is enabled by correctly completing the activity contained in the embedded (and interactive) web apps and then having the player walk through a portal. The player game score is calculated based on the speed and accuracy of their engagement with the exercises present.","PeriodicalId":374890,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education","volume":"4 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120859110","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}

引用次数: 0

Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Coding Camp through the Analysis of a Follow-up Project 通过对一个后续项目的分析来评价编程营的有效性

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education Pub Date : 2020-10-07 DOI: 10.1145/3368308.3415391

Ilenia Fronza, Luis Corral, C. Pahl, Gennaro Iaccarino

{"title":"Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Coding Camp through the Analysis of a Follow-up Project","authors":"Ilenia Fronza, Luis Corral, C. Pahl, Gennaro Iaccarino","doi":"10.1145/3368308.3415391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3368308.3415391","url":null,"abstract":"Initiatives to attract interest to software development are very popular, including coding camps for high schools. Camp's effectiveness is evaluated using different approaches: pre-and-post surveys usually analyze participant attitudes/interests in computing or self-efficacy; computing skills and learning are tested using surveys/tests, or by analyzing the final products. However, results on the camp's effectiveness are hardly generalizable due to the limited number of participants and the lack of repetition. Moreover, there is a lack of evaluation and evidence collected time after the end of the camp, to determine how participants capitalized on what they learned. To fill this gap, we organized a follow-up project to understand whether participants put in practice the foundational concepts and practices taught in one of our coding camps and recognized their impact on the characteristics of the delivered software product. Results show the camp's effectiveness in delivering technical foundations on basic aspects of Software Engineering, as well as concepts of product design and teamwork.","PeriodicalId":374890,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123435762","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}

引用次数: 4

An Interdisciplinary Approach for Teaching Artificial Intelligence to Computer Science Students 计算机科学专业学生人工智能教学的跨学科方法

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education Pub Date : 2020-10-07 DOI: 10.1145/3368308.3415440

Anoop Mishra, Harvey P. Siy

引用次数: 5

USB Linux: An IT Lab Instruction Tool During COVID-19 USB Linux:新冠肺炎期间的IT实验室教学工具

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education Pub Date : 2020-10-07 DOI: 10.1145/3368308.3415372

Jeremy Diederich, Xianping Wang, Niharika Dayyala, S. Inti, Ying Luo

引用次数: 3

A Multi-Dimensional Assessment Model and Its Application in E-learning Courses of Computer Science 多维评价模型及其在计算机科学E-learning课程中的应用

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education Pub Date : 2020-10-07 DOI: 10.1145/3368308.3415388

Jiwen Luo, Feng Lu, Tao Wang

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引用次数: 2

Ethics Assessed: An Interdisciplinary Effort to Develop Standards for Automated Learning Assessment in IT Courses 伦理评估:IT课程自动学习评估标准的跨学科研究

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education Pub Date : 2020-10-07 DOI: 10.1145/3368308.3415371

Kayeleigh Sharp, Belle Woodward, Nancy L. Martin

引用次数: 0

Systemic Change in IT Education: Frameworks and Stories from the Field 信息技术教育的系统变革:来自该领域的框架和故事

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education Pub Date : 2020-10-07 DOI: 10.1145/3368308.3416902

L. Barker

引用次数: 0

A Novel Framework for Collaborated IT Project with the Consideration of Data Security and Privacy 考虑数据安全和隐私的协作IT项目新框架

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education Pub Date : 2020-10-07 DOI: 10.1145/3368308.3415441

Meng Han, Lei Li, Ying Xie

引用次数: 0