Practicing the Process of Programming

练习编程的过程

基本信息

批准号：
1432190
负责人：
Amruth Kumar
金额：
$ 49.95万
依托单位：
Ramapo College of New Jersey
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2014-09-01 至 2021-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1432190&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Practicing Process Programming

项目摘要

The low numbers of computer science graduates is a national concern. One of the frequently cited reasons for leaving computer science is students' difficulties with programming. The goal of this project is to build a software tutor that provides feedback designed to guide students through the process of developing a sequence of steps to solve a given problem, selecting the programming language features appropriate for each step, and then writing code using those features. Students will learn to solve 40 different problems of varying complexity using the software tutor. The software tutor is expected to help reduce the number of students, especially women, who typically drop out of programming courses and increase the number of graduates who eventually go on to careers in Information Technology. This research and development project will consist of the following activities: 1) Creation of practice software that provides formative feedback to help students learn algorithm formulation and program design by solving problems. In addition, students will learn to write code for the problems, which will cover selection, loops, and functions in both Java and C++. 2) Assessment of student learning throughout the course using a formative evaluation of the pedagogic modules and feedback from the practice software. Summative evaluation will examine the impact of the software on the success of students in an introductory Computer Science course, measured in terms of grades, retention, and specifically, the differential impact of the software on women in the introductory programming course. 3) Dissemination of the results of the project through research conferences and journals and by sharing the practice software among educators so it can be adopted and used in other introductory Computer Science courses.

计算机科学毕业生数量少是一个全国性的问题。离开计算机科学领域最常被提及的原因之一是学生在编程方面遇到困难。该项目的目标是构建一个软件导师，提供反馈，旨在指导学生完成开发一系列步骤来解决给定问题的过程，选择适合每个步骤的编程语言功能，然后使用这些功能编写代码。学生将学习使用软件导师解决 40 个不同复杂程度的不同问题。软件导师预计将有助于减少学生数量，尤其是女性学生的数量，这些学生通常会辍学编程课程，并增加最终从事信息技术职业的毕业生数量。该研发项目将包括以下活动： 1）创建实践软件，提供形成性反馈，帮助学生通过解决问题来学习算法公式和程序设计。此外，学生还将学习为问题编写代码，其中包括 Java 和 C++ 中的选择、循环和函数。 2) 使用教学模块的形成性评估和练习软件的反馈来评估学生在整个课程中的学习情况。总结性评估将检查该软件对学生在计算机科学入门课程中取得成功的影响，以成绩、保留率来衡量，特别是该软件对女性在入门编程课程中的不同影响。 3) 通过研究会议和期刊以及在教育工作者之间共享实践软件来传播项目成果，以便在其他计算机科学入门课程中采用和使用。