SIGCSE 2023 - Differentiating for Comfort with Computer Science
As computer science courses grow, instructors may find it increasingly difficult to meet all learners where they are, offering more-experienced students appropriate challenge and less-experienced students sufficient support to become more experienced themselves. In this lightning talk, we present how we've differentiated the instruction and assignments in CS50, Harvard University’s introductory course for majors and non-majors, to support the growing variability we see in students' comfort with computer science. We share how we group students in sections according to their comfort levels, with…
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Differentiating for Comfort with Computer Science
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Comfort
0:47
Floors and Ceilings
1:19
Assignments
1:51
Sections
2:30
Assessment
2:56
Conclusion
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