Matsumoto, S. (2023, June), Work in Progress: An Interview-Based Retrospective on the Redesign of an Introductory Computing Course  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--44165

\bibitem{asee_peer_44165}
  Matsumoto, S. (2023, June), \emph{Work in Progress: An Interview-Based Retrospective on the Redesign of an Introductory Computing Course}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--44165

Stephanos Matsumoto.  "Work in Progress: An Interview-Based Retrospective on the Redesign of an Introductory Computing Course".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/44165 Internet.  18 Jun, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_44165}
  Stephanos Matsumoto.
  "Work in Progress: An Interview-Based Retrospective on the Redesign of an Introductory Computing Course".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/44165 Internet.  18 Jun, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - In this paper, we conduct a qualitative study to describe how focusing 
more on software engineering skills, code quality, and reflection on 
programming practices in an introductory computing course has led to 
improvements in students’ experience and learning outcomes. Our work 
took place during the summer and fall of 2020 at Olin College of 
Engineering, a small, undergraduate-only engineering college in 
Massachusetts. We describe how, motivated by difficulties in 
developing and assessing code quality in students work, we 
significantly redesigned course materials, assessment rubrics, and 
tooling. While we and our colleagues see informal evidence that the 
overall quality of student work and coding habits have improved, we 
conducted semi-structured interviews with current students and alumni, 
representing the perspectives of those who took the old version of the 
course and those who took the redesigned version. We present early 
results from these interviews, identifying themes that represent 
student perceptions on how computing courses are useful in their 
education and in their careers. These themes will help us to develop 
further metrics that will allow us to assess the usefulness of the 
course redesign in a more detailed way. In turn, these metrics will 
help us analyze future redesigns, both to this course and to other 
courses in our computing curriculum.

AU  - Stephanos Matsumoto
CY  - Baltimore , Maryland
DA  - 2023/06/25
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