Sumitra Sadhukhan
ABSTRACT
We want CS students to be self-reliant, self-determined active agents to perform action toward their learning goals. Self-directed learning (SDL) is considered to be useful for fostering engagement, autonomy, freedom, and decision-making skills among computer science (CS) undergraduate students. While exploring SDL, we find that agency is one of the constructs of SDL. There are teacher agencies, learner agencies, and organizational agencies. We are more specifically interested in learner agency. We are interested in achieving SDL by improving learner agency through questioning tools. Here we performed a study on CS undergraduate students in the data structure and algorithm (CS2) course. We explored learner agency by providing them with the power of questioning tools. Preliminary result shows a positive impact on the construct of the agency.
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Index Terms
- Fostering Self-Directed Learning Through Student-Question Posing in CS2
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