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Xinogalos, Stelios; Satratzemi, Maya; Malliarakis, Christos – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
Teaching and learning programming constitutes a challenge. Although several teaching approaches and programming tools have been proposed, it seems that they have limited impact on classroom practice. This article investigates students' perceptions on five educational programming environments that are widely used and the features that any…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Introductory Courses, Student Attitudes
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Hojeij, Zeina; Baroudi, Sandra – Issues in Educational Research, 2018
The impact of peer reviewing for writers has been investigated extensively for the past three decades. Results have showed that peer reviewing improves writers' texts, helps in identifying their writing strategies, and develops their motivation and confidence. Less researched, however, are the ways that could improve the quality of peer-review…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Peer Evaluation
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Thompson, Ian – Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 2017
In this paper, an example is offered of a problem-solving task for senior secondary school students which was given in the context of a story. As the story unfolds, the task requires progressively more complex forms of linear programming to be applied. Coding in MATLAB is used throughout the task in such a way that it supports the increasing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Programming, High School Seniors, Mathematics Education
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Trace, Jonathan; Brown, James Dean; Rodriguez, Julio – CALICO Journal, 2018
This study examines how technology is perceived by different stakeholder groups in The Language Flagship programs. We administered questionnaires to three stakeholder groups: 14 directors, 34 instructors, and 100 learners at a variety of institutions with three goals: (a) to investigate what technologies the directors, instructors, and learners…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Administrator Attitudes
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Fattah, Said Fathy El Said Abdul – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The present study was an attempt to determine the effectiveness of using a WhatsApp Messenger as one of mobile learning techniques to develop students' writing skills. Participants were 30 second year college students, English department from a private university in Saudi Arabia. The experimental group (N = 15) used WhatsApp technology to develop…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods
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Frydenberg, Mark; Press, Larry – Information Systems Education Journal, 2010
Computer literacy has evolved from writing simple BASIC programs to using desktop productivity applications. The shift from mainframe to personal computer brought about the need to rethink computer literacy courses to introduce basic skills and familiarity using desktop productivity applications. While these skills remain important, the recent…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Web 2.0 Technologies, Information Technology, Computer Science Education