Preventive Psychological and Pedagogical Program “I Am a Fifth Grader”

Building a Computer Program Grader

Students often learn best by doing, and they may learn programming skills best by writing many programs, ranging from simple to complex. Overworked teachers can be dismayed by the prospect of grading still more programs per student as well as teaching introductory classes with ever larger enrollments. We consider GradeBot, an automatic grader for computer programming lab assignments. Such an ap...

A Web-based Automatic Program Grader

The ability to program is one of the core tools used by computer scientists, and programming proficiency is a recommended requirement for ABET accreditation. In our experience, students learn programming skills best by writing many programs, ranging from simple to complex. Overworked teachers can be dismayed by the prospect of grading still more programs per student as well as teaching introduc...

I Am Not a Scientist, I Am a Number

We suspect many of our readers will be familiar with the cult TV show The Prisoner, in which actor Patrick McGoohan had his identity taken away by unknown assailants for unknown reasons, and his pleas of ‘‘I am not a number, I am a person’’ (http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v = 29JewlGsYxs&feature = related) were greeted with variants of ‘‘whatever you say, number six.’’ We would suggest that, as ...

Psychological Sketches ( Fifth Edition )

Integrating pedagogical content knowledge and pedagogical/psychological knowledge in mathematics

In teacher education at universities, general pedagogical and psychological principles are often treated separately from subject matter knowledge and therefore run the risk of not being applied in the teaching subject. In an experimental study (N = 60 mathematics student teachers) we investigated the effects of providing aspects of general pedagogical/psychological knowledge (PPK) and pedagogic...