Title :
Incorporating PBL in a High School Computer Science Course
Author :
Chang, Ling-Chian ; Lee, Greg C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Educ., National Taiwan Normal Univ., Taipei
Abstract :
The study was conducted with 605 high-school students in 13 classes of a typical high school in northern Taiwan. In the paper, we detail the past conduct of the course, the revised PBL-induced course design, and our experimental design. We discuss how we circumvented the usual challenges faced with PBL and some of the pragmatic issues faced during our implementation. Our experimental results showed that PBL did enhance students´ learning in computer science concepts and their software usage skills. Furthermore, the classroom atmosphere was changed from the teacher-directed atmosphere into lively students-centered atmosphere in which students became active learners in and out of the classroom. We have also concluded that the blending of cooperative learning with PBL in a computer class is feasible
Keywords :
computer science education; educational courses; teaching; active learner; classroom atmosphere; computer class; computer science concept; cooperative learning; high school computer science course design; project-based learning; software usage skill; student learning; Application software; Atmosphere; Atmospheric modeling; Computer science; Computer science education; Curriculum development; Design for experiments; Educational institutions; Web pages; Action Research; Computer Science; High School; Project-Based Learning;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 36th Annual
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0256-5
Electronic_ISBN :
0190-5848
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2006.322487
