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Title:
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REFINEMENT OF PROGRAMMING COURSE PLAN WITH INQUIRY AND BEHAVIORAL DATA |
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Author(s):
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Dinh Thi Dong Phuong, Fumiko Harada, Hiromitsu Shimakawa |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-38-0 |
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Editors:
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Miguel Baptista Nunes and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2011 |
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Edition:
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Volume I |
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Keywords:
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Programming course, inquiry method, service, course plan, web system, course plan refinement. |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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321 |
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Last Page:
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328 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Programming educators often take it unimportant to investigate student abilities, characteristics, interests and attitudes to programming. When they design a course, they usually determine some strategies according to their course objectives. They require all of the students to adapt to the course design. This method is not fair under educational view point, since it does not motivate all sorts of the students. It may demotivate those who cannot adjust themselves to adapt to the course design, which may cause them drop out of the class. This paper introduces a method to accomplish an optimum course design for a programming course which meets both student requirements and the course objectives. First, experienced student requirements are taken by contextual inquiry method. We find out services appropriate to these requirements to motivate learners in the next course. We settle services for our course objectives. We integrate these services into a course plan. We apply the course plan to actual student class and get real behavior data from the students. We analyze the data to evaluate the course plan. We have been applying this method in C programming classes in academic years 2010 and 2011 for more than 500 freshmen. The method reveals a successful result. |
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