February 2, 2023
Georgiana Haldeman from Colgate University will present "Effective and Scalable CS Education". Pizza provided. Everyone welcome to attend.
With enrollments at a record high, computer science (CS) departments have a need for effective and scalable teaching techniques that is greater than ever. Some concepts and skills in CS are very challenging, such as runtime analysis and value vs. reference semantics. In this talk, we present our research on two pedagogical devices for these challenging concepts, and two additional solutions developed to make an existing scalable practice more effective, both for learning and teaching. These solutions extend autograders, enabling them to automatically provide formative feedback to students as well as a summary of the most common errors. These solutions are complementary: the first provides hints written by the instructor, while the second provides feedback on the structuring of students’ code.
Further information
- Location: Tome 115
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Cost: Free