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Perspectives on the Student Transition into CS1

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Angela A. Siegel,

Mark Zarb,

Richard Glassey,

Janet HughesAuthors Info & Claims

ITiCSE '19: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3304221.3325540

Published: 02 July 2019 Publication History

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As students transition into higher education, their experience can be quite new and foreign to them. This experience, while an individual one, consists of many concerns that are shared amongst these transitioning students. Partly as a result of these concerns, retention rates of first year Computer Science students suffer. Members of this panel have been involved in multi-year studies across Scotland [2, 5] as well as an international study [3] looking at the student experience as they transition into undergraduate Computer Science. This panel hopes to discuss the transition into CS1 and implications for Computer Science retention rates from varied international perspectives as well as through the lens of online learning. It further hopes to discuss new ways that we might be able to better support first year CS student retention in light of collected transition data, as well as the current state of any implemented recommendations in previous work (you may want to rephrase this).

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M. Zarb, B. Alshaigy, D. Bouvier, R. Glassey, J. Hughes, and C. Riedesel. (2018) An International Investigation into Student Concerns regarding Transition into Higher Education. In Proceedings of 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE'18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 20 pages.

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Siegel AZarb MAnderson ECrane BGao ALatulipe CLovellette EMcNeill FMeharg DQuille KAlshaigy BBecker BQuille KLaakso M(2022)The Impact of COVID-19 on the CS Student Learning ExperienceProceedings of the 2022 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education10.1145/3571785.3574126(165-190)Online publication date: 27-Dec-2022
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Siegel AZarb MAnderson ECrane BGao ALatulipe CLovellette EMcNeill FMeharg DBecker BQuille KLaakso MBarendsen ESimon (2022)COVID-19, Students and the New Educational LandscapeProceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Vol. 210.1145/3502717.3532167(574-575)Online publication date: 7-Jul-2022
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Siegel AZarb MAlshaigy BBlanchard JCrick TGlassey RHott JLatulipe CRiedesel CSenapathi MSimon Williams DKrogstie BQuille KSchulte CBecker B(2021)Teaching through a Global PandemicProceedings of the 2021 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education10.1145/3502870.3506565(1-25)Online publication date: 28-Dec-2021
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Perspectives on the Student Transition into CS1
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        CS1

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July 2019

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DOI:10.1145/3304221

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University of Aberdeen, UK
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