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EasyCoding - methodology to support programming learning
| Resumo: | The increase in failure rate in the first programming curricular units, in engineering courses, and the school dropout growth by students shows the importance of further study on the real reasons for these episodes. When considering that this situation is amplified, in large part, by the lack of motivation and the lack of student autonomy to study programming outside the classroom context, this work proposes a methodology based on activity guides, using innovative and attractive web platforms. The proposed methodology aims to facilitate the planning of teachers’ activities and to increase students’ autonomy and motivation. For the execution of this study, we evaluated the proposed methodology with programming professors and students at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança and the Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais. In addition, we developed a system for automatic generation of activity guides which aimed assisting teachers in the creation of exercises with innovative web platforms to motivate students to study programming beyond the classroom. The obtained results allow us to demonstrate the importance of using innovative teaching methodologies, inside and outside the classroom, to encourage students to practice more programming exercises. Thus, as contributions, the proposed methodology can help combat school dropout in higher education in engineering courses, once it can help to keep the students motivated during the first programming subjects. |
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| Autores principais: | Almeida, Marcela Viana Pereira de |
| Assunto: | School dropout Higher Education Programming teaching Student motivation Activity guides automation |
| Ano: | 2021 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Instituto Politécnico de Bragança |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Biblioteca Digital do IPB |
| Resumo: | The increase in failure rate in the first programming curricular units, in engineering courses, and the school dropout growth by students shows the importance of further study on the real reasons for these episodes. When considering that this situation is amplified, in large part, by the lack of motivation and the lack of student autonomy to study programming outside the classroom context, this work proposes a methodology based on activity guides, using innovative and attractive web platforms. The proposed methodology aims to facilitate the planning of teachers’ activities and to increase students’ autonomy and motivation. For the execution of this study, we evaluated the proposed methodology with programming professors and students at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança and the Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais. In addition, we developed a system for automatic generation of activity guides which aimed assisting teachers in the creation of exercises with innovative web platforms to motivate students to study programming beyond the classroom. The obtained results allow us to demonstrate the importance of using innovative teaching methodologies, inside and outside the classroom, to encourage students to practice more programming exercises. Thus, as contributions, the proposed methodology can help combat school dropout in higher education in engineering courses, once it can help to keep the students motivated during the first programming subjects. |
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