CS Science Education Initiative

Hi folks, The CS Education Reading Group will be resuming for the term this Friday at 3PM in ICCS 238. Papers have been posted here: http...

A survey of students in six biology courses showed that students not only have favorable opinions about the use of student response systems ...

Asking a student to find the solution to a problem creates high cognitive load that she may end up making a lot of mistakes. This is especi...

We all love praises ... for a job well done, for academic achievements, for beauty, .. but what do they do to us? Well we all know that the...

Framing is a construct developed in anthropology and linguistics to describe how an individual or group forms a sense of "what is it th...

Good questions that engage students in discussions are essential in peer instruction, whether these questions are posed after a mini lecture...

One of the many goals of an educator is to prepare their students to adapt what they have learned in new situations. There can be two types...