Effects of curriculum adjustments on first-year programming courses: Students' performance and achievment

Isabel Huet e Silva; Osvaldo Pacheco; José Tavares

Effects of curriculum adjustments on first-year programming courses: Students' performance and achievment

Isabel Huet e Silva, Osvaldo Pacheco, José Tavares

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Abstract

Researchers of the Science Education Department have been working together for the past two years with faculty from the Electronic and Telecommunication Department aiming to explain students' failure and drop out rate in a first-year undergraduate programming course at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Two main variables were significantly correlated with the students' failure: the curriculum organization of the course and the teaching methods. In this paper we are concerned with analyzing the curriculum redesign in the area of Informatics, namely at a introductory programming course that took place in 2001/02 and whether it has influenced students' achievement and motivation for the course.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	T4C10-T4C14
Journal	Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference
Volume	1
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2003
Externally published	Yes
Event	Engineering as a Human Endeavor: Partnering Community, Academia, Government, and Industry - Westminster, CO, United States Duration: 5 Nov 2003 → 8 Nov 2003

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Curriculum
Engineering and Science students' academic achievement
First-year programming teaching practice

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