Results of a PBL trial in first-year computer science
Tony Greening, Judy Kay, Jeffrey H. Kingston, Kathryn Crawford · 1996
In 1996 the Basser Department of Computer Science at the University of Sydney ran a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) trial parallel with its conventional first-year programme.This was reported "in-progress" at ACSE'96.The effect of that trial is that the department has now adopted PBL as the basis for facilitating first-year learning of computer science in 1997.Some aspects of the evaluation of the initial trial are shared in this paper, as well as some recommendations which emerged from the nial.