Tracking an innovation in introductory CS education from a research university to a two-year college

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Tracking an innovation in introductory CS education from a research university to a two-year college

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Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education table of contents

St. Louis, Missouri, USA

SESSION: The first year: studies of student performance table of contents

Pages: 416 - 420

Year of Publication: 2005

ISBN:1-58113-997-7

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Allison Elliott Tew	Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
Charles Fowler	Gainesville College, Gainesville, GA
Mark Guzdial	Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA

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SIGCSE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Innovations in teaching and learning computer science education can easily be overly-specific to a given institution, or type of institution. For example, an innovation may require special hardware, or may make assumptions about the background of the students. This paper tracks one such innovation, a multimedia-focused introductory computing course, as it moved from a research-focused university to a public two-year college. At both institutions, the new course resulted in dramatically improved retention. Students at the two-year college were even more motivated and more positive about computing after the course than students at the research university. The results suggest ways of approaching innovation that is easily adaptable to other institutions.

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