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Support for Programmed Instruction in an eTextbook

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Students often skip through instructional material without paying enough attention to the content, resulting in less understanding. Inspired by the Programmed Instruction (PI) technique, we implemented extensions to an eTextbook system to support instructional slideshows with a large number of interspersed questions. Students must answer a question correctly to pass to the next slide. This completely changes how students interact with the material. Our initial results show a significant increase in students' grades when they used PI for a Formal Languages course.

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  • (2022)Stop Reinventing the Wheel! Promoting Community Software in Computing EducationProceedings of the 2022 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education10.1145/3571785.3574129(261-292)Online publication date: 27-Dec-2022

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SIGCSE '21: Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
March 2021
1454 pages
ISBN:9781450380621
DOI:10.1145/3408877
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  1. auto-grading
  2. programmed instruction
  3. student engagement

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  • (2022)Stop Reinventing the Wheel! Promoting Community Software in Computing EducationProceedings of the 2022 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education10.1145/3571785.3574129(261-292)Online publication date: 27-Dec-2022

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