TY - GEN
T1 - Revitalizing Introductory Computer Courses for Non-CS Majors
T2 - 6th International Conference on Education and Multimedia Technology, ICEMT 2022
AU - Cheong, Ngai
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/7/13
Y1 - 2022/7/13
N2 - In order to better expand the academic horizons of non-Computer Science (CS) majors, the universities across Macao usually offer introductory courses on computer science and computer applications. There are often problems when these students enter an introductory computer course on conceptual learning (CL), because of lack of different experience levels with science topics. This paper aims to present and summarize a variety of performances on CL for non-CS majors at the Macao Polytechnic University (MPU), majoring in such disciplines as Social Work (SW), Public Administration (PA), Chinese-Portuguese/English Translation and Interpretation (CPETI), Science in Nursing (SN), particularly associated to CL. The paper also includes the descriptions and results of work done at the MPU. We have collected the assessment information of each class (continuous assessment and final examinations), more than 2,000 non-CS majors over the past 16 years at MPU. Based our statistics, for a high percentage of these students, they will feel certain difficulty of CL, but the degree of difficulties, the students from studies reflect the different characteristics, Through the questionaries and classroom conversations, the possible reasons and problem solutions are discussed in the end of this paper..
AB - In order to better expand the academic horizons of non-Computer Science (CS) majors, the universities across Macao usually offer introductory courses on computer science and computer applications. There are often problems when these students enter an introductory computer course on conceptual learning (CL), because of lack of different experience levels with science topics. This paper aims to present and summarize a variety of performances on CL for non-CS majors at the Macao Polytechnic University (MPU), majoring in such disciplines as Social Work (SW), Public Administration (PA), Chinese-Portuguese/English Translation and Interpretation (CPETI), Science in Nursing (SN), particularly associated to CL. The paper also includes the descriptions and results of work done at the MPU. We have collected the assessment information of each class (continuous assessment and final examinations), more than 2,000 non-CS majors over the past 16 years at MPU. Based our statistics, for a high percentage of these students, they will feel certain difficulty of CL, but the degree of difficulties, the students from studies reflect the different characteristics, Through the questionaries and classroom conversations, the possible reasons and problem solutions are discussed in the end of this paper..
KW - 1. Non-CS Majors
KW - 2. Conceptual Learning
KW - 3. Computer Science
KW - 4. Introductory Courses
KW - 5. Learning Environments
KW - 6. Student Understanding
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85142854263&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3551708.3551782
DO - 10.1145/3551708.3551782
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85142854263
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 344
EP - 349
BT - ICEMT 2022 - 2022 6th International Conference on Education and Multimedia Technology
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 13 July 2022 through 15 July 2022
ER -