Getting Students to Earnestly Do Reading, Studying, and Homework in an Introductory Programming Class

Edgcomb, Alex Daniel; Vahid, Frank; Lysecky, Roman; Lysecky, Susan

doi:10.1145/3017680.3017732

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“…We present a case study involving an introductory undergraduate STEM course entitled "Digital System Design," offered to incoming first-year students. In this course, the cinematic meditation technique has become a successful early intervention in improving student motivation and engagement (Rao, (Edgcomb et al, 2015) improves student engagement and also provides a wealth of detailed data about student participation and punctuality.…”

Section: Advances In Engineering Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Interventions for Promoting Student Engagement and Predicting Performance in an Introductory Engineering Class

Rao¹

2020

AEE Journal

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Studies show that a significant fraction of students graduating from high schools in the U.S. is ill prepared for college and careers. Some problems include weak grounding in math and writing, lack of motivation, and insufficient conscientiousness. Academic institutions are under pressure to improve student retention and graduate rates, whereas students are under pressure to graduate and find employment. Consequently, there is room for substantial innovation in better motivating students, improving their performance, and helping them succeed. This paper describes two interventions consisting of cinematic meditation and online books. We utilized them to improve student engagement while developing important skills including conscientiousness and communication. In cinematic meditation, we engaged students in goaldirected and guided viewing of films concerning important technological developments. We administered this exercise during the first week of class, which helped to motivate students and stimulate classroom discussion. We asked students to write an essay describing their responses to questions related to the films. Online books help to log student activity and provide supplementary learning material for the students to master. Both these interventions produce quantitative data about student behavior, such as timeliness, which we used to predict subsequent student performance. A timeliness measure, obtainable as early as within 5 weeks of the semester, is correlated (r = 0.4, p < 0.001) with a cumulative score computed at the midpoint of the semester. This facilitates the early identification of at-risk students, and could avert further performance problems in the semester. The interventions and data-driven techniques described in this paper are easy to administer and scalable to large class sizes.

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Section: Advances In Engineering Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the current paper, we expand our analysis to utilize data from N = 86 students over two semesters. In addition, we utilize information provided by student behavioral patterns captured by ZYBooks, an online learning portal (Edgcomb et al, 2017) which is becoming popular in U.S. universities.…”

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Interventions for Promoting Student Engagement and Predicting Performance in an Introductory Engineering Class

Rao¹

2020

AEE Journal

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“…Unlike conventional textbooks, this interactive system enables monitoring of student activity and completion including time on task and the correctness or incorrectness of their answers to multiple choice questions. Interactive textbooks of this type are known to be effective in engaging students to read them and improve their success [13][14][15].…”

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Interactive Editing of Circuits in a Step-based Tutoring System

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

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He is the FSU campus education director for the NSF-ERC Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management Systems Center (FREEDM) and has much experience in recruiting and advising graduate, undergraduate, REU, and K-12 students, as well as in working with RET teachers. Dr. Andrei has published over 100 articles in computational electronics, electromagnetics, energy storage devices, and large scale optimization methods.

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“…they do not need to install Python, a text editor, and so on). zyBooks [25], another example of an interactive textbook, have gained a significant degree of popularity in recent years [77]. zyBooks present text interleaved…”

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A Non-Linear Electronic Textbook Format to Facilitate Deep Learning

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Getting Students to Earnestly Do Reading, Studying, and Homework in an Introductory Programming Class

Cited by 68 publications

References 8 publications

Interventions for Promoting Student Engagement and Predicting Performance in an Introductory Engineering Class

Interventions for Promoting Student Engagement and Predicting Performance in an Introductory Engineering Class

Interactive Editing of Circuits in a Step-based Tutoring System

A Non-Linear Electronic Textbook Format to Facilitate Deep Learning

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