Tracking an innovation in introductory CS education from a research university to a two-year college

Authors:
Allison Elliott Tew;Charles Fowler;Mark Guzdial
Affiliations:
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA;Gainesville College, Gainesville, GA;Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Innovations in teaching and learning computer science education can easily be overly-specific to a given institution, or type of institution. For example, an innovation may require special hardware, or may make assumptions about the background of the students. This paper tracks one such innovation, a multimedia-focused introductory computing course, as it moved from a research-focused university to a public two-year college. At both institutions, the new course resulted in dramatically improved retention. Students at the two-year college were even more motivated and more positive about computing after the course than students at the research university. The results suggest ways of approaching innovation that is easily adaptable to other institutions.