A Case Study of Early Performance Prediction and Intervention in a Computer Science Course
Mariana Silva, Eric Shaffer, Nicolas Nytko, Jennifer R. Amos · 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings · 2020
She has been involved in large-scale teaching innovation activities, such as the development of online course content and assessments for the mechanics course sequence in the Mechanical Science and Engineering Department and the numerical methods class in Computer Science.Silva is currently involved in two educational projects involving the development of online assessments for computerbased testing and creation of collaborative programming activities for computer science classes.She is also involved in a project that aims to create a software that facilitates collaborative problem-solving activities in classrooms, through which both the instructors and students learn more about collaboration skills.Silva is very passionate about teaching and improving the classroom experience for both students and instructors.She has been included in the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent five times and has received the Engineering Council Outstanding Advisor Award every year since 2014.