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Title: Applying Threshold Concepts Strategies to Teaching Computing Students in an ODL Context
Language: English
Authors: Jaroslaw Pawel Adamiak (ORCID 0000-0001-6535-6831)
Source: Open Praxis. 2024 16(2):225-236.
Availability: International Council for Open and Distance Education. Lilleakerveien 23, 0283 Oslo, Norway. Tel: +47-22-06-26-30; Fax: +47-22-06-26-31; e-mail: icde@icde.org; Web site: https://openpraxis.org/
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 12
Publication Date: 2024
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Open Education, Distance Education, College Freshmen, Foreign Countries, Tutorial Programs, Academic Achievement, Introductory Courses, Information Systems, Programming Languages, Scores
Geographic Terms: South Africa
ISSN: 1369-9997
2304-070X
Abstract: The academic success of first-year students' learning in science faculties is by no means assured, especially in an Open Distance Learning setting with its limited number of face-to-face encounters between students and lecturers or tutors. Therefore, such encounters should be highly efficient in view of the considerable amount of knowledge transfer to students. The University of South Africa (Unisa) makes provision for contact sessions of 15 hours per semester for selected modules in an attempt to elevate the pedagogical efficiency of these sessions by focusing on the threshold concepts as an innovative way of learning. This paper shows that tutorials adopting the threshold concepts approach have the potential to make students academically more successful. The focus of this study is an introductory information systems module that teaches the Python programming language. Our statistical analysis demonstrated that the year marks and final exam scores of the participating students were frequently higher than those of the students in the control group.
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