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Analyzing Motivation And Sense Of Belonging Belonging In Cs1 Review Sessions, Cory Longenecker
Analyzing Motivation And Sense Of Belonging Belonging In Cs1 Review Sessions, Cory Longenecker
Senior Honors Projects, 2020-current
The Computer Science Department at James Madison University has a Teaching Assistant program which aims to help students succeed in early-level Computer Science courses. Part of this program is a review session, the Fourth Hour, which provides students extra help on the concepts taught each week in class. Historically, attendance at this review session has been low. Because of this, the study aimed to increase attendance by motivating students through interventions, primarily offering quiz retakes to students who attended. Additionally, this study looked at the reported sense of belonging for participants who attended.
We made three conclusions from survey data …