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Designing Contributing Student Pedagogies to Promote Students' Intrinsic Motivation to Learn
Geoffrey L. Herman
Computer Science Education Vol. 22, No. 4 (2012) pp. 369–388
In order to maximize the effectiveness of our pedagogies, we must understand how our pedagogies align with prevailing theories of cognition and motivation and design our pedagogies according to this understanding. When implementing Contributing...
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Describing the What and Why of Students' Difficulties in Boolean Logic
Geoffrey L. Herman; Michael C. Loui; Lisa Kaczmarczyk; Craig Zilles
ACM Transactions on Computing Education Vol. 12, No. 1 (March 2012)
The ability to reason with formal logic is a foundational skill for computer scientists and computer engineers that scaffolds the abilities to design, debug, and optimize. By interviewing students about their understanding of propositional logic and ...
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How Do Students Misunderstand Number Representations?
Geoffrey L. Herman; Craig Zilles; Michael C. Loui
Computer Science Education Vol. 21, No. 3 (2011) pp. 289–312
We used both student interviews and diagnostic testing to reveal students' misconceptions about number representations in computing systems. This article reveals that students who have passed an undergraduate level computer organization course still ...
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Setting the Scope of Concept Inventories for Introductory Computing Subjects
Ken Goldman; Paul Gross; Cinda Heeren; Geoffrey L. Herman; Lisa Kaczmarczyk; Michael C. Loui; Craig Zilles
ACM Transactions on Computing Education Vol. 10, No. 2 (June 2010)
A concept inventory is a standardized assessment tool intended to evaluate a student's understanding of the core concepts of a topic. In order to create a concept inventory it is necessary to accurately identify these core concepts. A Delphi process ...