A system for improving distance and large-scale classes
ITiCSE '98 Proceedings of the 6th annual conference on the teaching of computing and the 3rd annual conference on Integrating technology into computer science education: Changing the delivery of computer science education
Improving on-line assessment: an investigation of existing marking methodologies
ITiCSE '99 Proceedings of the 4th annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
SAIL: a system for generating, archiving, and retrieving specialized assignments using LATEX
Proceedings of the thirty-first SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Student motivation and positive impressions of computing subjects
ACSE '00 Proceedings of the Australasian conference on Computing education
An Allocation Model for Automatic Assignment Generation and Marking
ICALT '05 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
The curse of Monkey Island: holding the attention of students weaned on computer games
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
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At Georgia Tech, we investigated aspects of student performance in the Introduction to Computing course offered by the College of Computing. Our goal was to investigate the effects of customizing assignments based on individual student needs. This was motivated by the fact that our technology can enable us to create and distribute individualized assignments. Thus, we sought to answer the question, "In the span of a single academic quarter, can we (a) identify weaknesses in each student's performance, then (b) give them assignments targeted to their individual weaknesses such that (c) we achieve a positive impact on their subsequent performance. Significant results were found with respect to certain aspects of individualization. They suggest individualized assignments can be effective for students who evidence neither very strong nor very weak topical performance.