Educational data mining and learning analytics promise better understanding of student
behavior and knowledge, as well as new information on the tacit factors that contribute to …

Providing effective support and feedback to students is critical to ensure engagement and
retention within Computer Science courses. Individual student learning experiences and …

Learning the first programming language is challenging for many students. High failure rates
and bimodally distributed grades lead to a pedagogical interest in supporting students in first …

Designing Effective Digital Badges is a hands-on guide to the principles, implementation,
and assessment of digital badging systems. Informed by the fundamental concepts and …

Writing meaningful software tests requires students to think critically about a problem and
consider a variety of cases that might break the solution code. Consequently, to overcome …

Academy and industry permanently remark the importance of software-testing techniques to
improve software quality and to reduce development and maintenance costs. A testing …

When learning to program, assignment feedback can easily reinforce a fixed mindset---
where one believes intelligence is a fixed ability you either have or you don't. However, this …

We introduce the Ante framework to automate the evaluation of student tests in such a way
that students will see them as an integral part of the software development process. Our …

We describe the evolution of an introductory programming course into an active learning
format, thereby replacing the traditional textbook and online tutoring system with an …

This Innovative Practice Full Paper describes a pedagogical technique for introducing unit
testing within software engineering courses. The Bug Hide-and-Seek educational game …