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The Esa21 Project: A Model For Civic Engagement, John Pratte, Matthew Laposata
The Esa21 Project: A Model For Civic Engagement, John Pratte, Matthew Laposata
Faculty and Research Publications
There have been many systematic approaches to solving the problem of how to make science courses interesting to students. One that is currently receiving attention in the sciences is the use of civic engagement within the classroom. This approach works well in small enrollment courses, but it is logistically difficult to implement in large enrollment courses. Large enrollment classes lend themselves more naturally to other civic engagement approaches, such as special topics courses with individual or group research projects. The authors choose to meld the two approaches, thus creating a collection of activity modules for environmental science courses that use …
Personality And Programming, Amy B. Woszczynski, Tracy C. Guthrie, Sherri Shade
Personality And Programming, Amy B. Woszczynski, Tracy C. Guthrie, Sherri Shade
Faculty and Research Publications
Information systems students continue to struggle to successfully complete computer programming classes. Learning how to program is difficult, and failure and attrition rates in college level programming classes remain at an unacceptably high rate. Since many IS students take a programming course as part of their program of study, IS educators should better understand why IS students tend to achieve low success rates in programming courses and what can be done to improve success rates. Little research to date has addressed potential reasons for student failure in programming principles courses. Many educators simply assume that high failure rates are acceptable …