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The academic enhancement program: encouraging students to learn about learning as part of their computing science courses

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Diana Cukierman,

Donna McGee ThompsonAuthors Info & Claims

ITiCSE '09: Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

Pages 171 - 175

https://doi.org/10.1145/1562877.1562933

Published: 06 July 2009 Publication History

Abstract

The Academic Enhancement Program (AEP) at Simon Fraser University has been created to support student learning by integrating activities that introduce students to basic learning theory and strategies into core first-year Computing Science (CS) courses. Program activities include two required workshops run specifically for the CS courses, tailored to course topics. The AEP also includes a third "Elective" component that encourages students to learn about a topic of their choice related to student success and wellness. Students receive course marks for these activities. In this paper we describe how we have developed the program over the past three years and present results about the perceived usefulness of these activities both from student survey responses and from interviews with academic advisors. We also discuss lessons learned. Our findings indicate that such practices are of general benefit to our student population and are promising to address students' academic challenges, possibly having a positive impact on retention.

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Egan RCukierman DMcGee Thompson DRößling GNaps TSpannagel C(2011)The academic enhancement program in introductory CSProceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education10.1145/1999747.1999825(278-282)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2011
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The academic enhancement program: encouraging students to learn about learning as part of their computing science courses
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education

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ITiCSE '09: Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

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DOI:10.1145/1562877

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 41, Issue 3
ITiCSE '09
September 2009
403 pages
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Cukierman DMcGee Thompson DSun WHawthorne EPérez-Quiñones MHeckman SZhang J(2019)The Academic Enhancement ProgramProceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education10.1145/3287324.3287422(686-692)Online publication date: 22-Feb-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3287324.3287422
Cukierman DDagienė VSchulte CJevsikova T(2015)Predicting Success in University First Year Computing Science CoursesProceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education10.1145/2729094.2742623(248-253)Online publication date: 22-Jun-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2729094.2742623
Egan RCukierman DMcGee Thompson DRößling GNaps TSpannagel C(2011)The academic enhancement program in introductory CSProceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education10.1145/1999747.1999825(278-282)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1999747.1999825

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