Reflective Journal Insights from a First-Year Undergraduate Class Exercise

From Principles to Practice with Class in the First Year

We propose a bridge between functional and object-oriented programming in the first-year curriculum. Traditionally, curricula that begin with functional programming transition to a professional, usually object-oriented, language in the second course. This transition poses obstacles for students, and often results in confusing the details of development environments, syntax, and libraries with t...

A method for assessing reflective journal writing.

Reflection is widely accepted as a learning tool and is considered integral to professional practice. Journal writing is advocated in facilitating reflection, yet little is written about how to assess reflection in journals. The purpose of this study was to develop and test a method of assessing the elements of reflection in journals and to determine whether, and to what level, reflection occur...

Indiana Undergraduate Journal of

Indiana Undergraduate Journal of

Artificial neural networks have been used to model many aspects of human-music interaction. Pitch perception, key identification, melody discrimination, and original composition are all tasks for which researchers have tried to use networks. For this project, however, I was most interested in the idea of using a neural network for harmonization. Since (good) harmonization is considered a diffic...

Research Article: The Quantitative Effect of Students Using Podcasts in a First Year Undergraduate Exercise Physiology Module

This study reports the quantitative effect of students using podcasts in a 1st year undergraduate exercise physiology module. From a cohort of 70 students, 50 volunteered and completed the study. Using a pre-post random allocation research design, students were allocated to either a podcast group (PG) or control group (CG) based on a 32-question multiple-choice exam. The PG then listened to six...