Diversifying activities to improve student performance in programming courses

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Abstract

This paper presents a pedagogical strategy that intends to help students maximize learning and minimize drop-out rates in programming courses. The goal is to motivate students to develop a better programming study behaviour through the utilization of appropriate learning activities and the conscious assessment of their self-efficacy level. The paper also includes some preliminary results of the strategy application with students of Design and Multimedia

Keywords

Research Communities, Programming Learning, Self-efficacy

Subject

Computer Science Education

Journal

Communication & Cognition, Vol. 46, #1, pp. 39-58, Fernand VANDAMME and Philip VAN LOOCKE, April 2013

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