Establishing structured support for programming students

Author

Stamouli, Ioanna ; Doyle, Eileen ; Huggard, Meriel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Trinity Coll., Dublin, Ireland

fYear

2004

fDate

20-23 Oct. 2004

Abstract

This paper describes the structure, implementation, and impact evaluation of a programming support centre for engineering and computing students. The main focus of this centre is to provide a positive, supportive atmosphere where students can voluntarily seek one-to-one assistance with programming difficulties. The support offered is specifically structured to nurture and leverage each student´s motivation for taking a programming course whilst providing them with individually tailored advice and practical help. A qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the centre´s operation is presented, together with analysis of statistics on student motivation. The results of this research suggest that the newly developed programming support centre has had a positive impact on student learning.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; engineering education; human resource management; programming; computer programming; computing students; programming course; programming support; qualitative evaluation; quantitative evaluation; statistics analysis; student learning; student motivation; Atmosphere; Computer displays; Computer science; Computer science education; Continuing education; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Information management; Programming profession; Statistical analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education, 2004. FIE 2004. 34th Annual

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8552-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2004.1408612

Filename

1408612