Campus Units
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Document Type
Poster
Conference
19th Annual Team-Based Learning Collaborative Meeting
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
2020
Conference Title
19th Annual Team-Based Learning Collaborative Meeting
Conference Date
March 14 – 17, 2020
City
Portland, OR
Abstract
First-year programming courses have always been a challenge for many students as the course expectation is not only for them to be able to understand programming concepts, but also to produce creative solutions to problems. Moreover, students come from high school with diverse programming backgrounds, i.e., some of them already studied programming and others have no idea what programming is. Team-Based Learning (TBL) seems a natural solution to increase the amount of practice each student will get and to increase students’ interest and confidence. Creating diverse teams to work on different activities will flip students ability differences from liability to an advantage and will help students to learn from each other as well as from the course instructor. In this proposed project, our main goal is to minimize the Drop/Withdraw/Fail (DWF) rate of such courses where programming- novice students tend to DWF the course usually based on our experience from previous semesters. A side goal will be conducted to develop the students soft skills over the semester. More than 400 students will be impacted by this project from Computer Engineering (CPRE) and Software Engineering (SE) programs.
Copyright Owner
The Author(s)
Copyright Date
2020
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Selim, Mohamed Y. and Bender, Holly, "Flipping student ability differences from a liability to an advantage: A team-based learning approach to introduce computer engineering and problem solving (programming) to freshmen students" (2020). Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference Papers, Posters and Presentations. 98.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ece_conf/98
Comments
This poster is published as Selim, Mohamed Y., and Holly Bender. "Flipping student ability differences from a liability to an advantage: A team-based learning approach to introduce computer engineering and problem solving (programming) to freshmen students." 19th Annual Team-Based Learning Collaborative Meeting, Portland, Oregon, USA, March 14 – 17, 2020. Posted with permission.