Title
ITiCSE 2010 working group report motivating our top students
Abstract
It would be unlikely for any first year programming class to be solely composed of novices with the same aptitude for learning. We all have students who arrive with a range of abilities and backgrounds. We have students who barely know their way around a keyboard and those who have programmed professionally; this starting knowledge is also no indicator of learning ability. We need to support struggling students with little knowledge whilst maintaining the enthusiasm of those who are quick to learn, and trying not to de-motivate the ones in the middle The aim of this working group was to explore the ways in which academics around the world enthuse their high achieving students; seeking things that work and things that don't. This has been achieved by a mixture of literature review and survey of current practice. The synthesis of these forms the basis for the recommendations we make.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1971681.1971685
Proceedings of the 2010 ITiCSE working group reports
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
knowledge whilst,current practice,year programming class,working group,learning programming,top student,motivation,group report,differentiation in the classroom,literature review
Conference
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.59
80
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Janet Carter17617.24
Su White29418.21
Karen Fraser3231.43
Stanislav Kurkovsky4244.40
Colette McCreesh570.59
Malcolm Wieck670.59