Improving student performance in CS1
Kellie Price, Suzanne Smith · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2014
Decreasing enrollments, lower rates of student retention and changes in the learning styles of today's students are all issues that the Computer Science (CS) academic community is currently facing. As a result, CS educators are being challenged to find the right blend of technology and pedagogy for their curriculum in order to help students persist through the major and produce strong graduates. At the Department of Computing at East Tennessee State University (ETSU), a multi-semester study was undertaken which introduced visual technologies in the CS1 course. Visual technologies were explored as a way to present difficult programming concepts in a manner that is easier to visualize and simpler to use. Student performance in the CS1 course and student persistence in the major were examined.