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Towards Identifying Core Computational Literacy Concepts for Inclusion in a First-year General Engineering Course

Maczka, D; Shah, R; Gillen, A; (2021) Towards Identifying Core Computational Literacy Concepts for Inclusion in a First-year General Engineering Course. In: Papers on Engineering Education Repository. (pp. pp. 1-14). American Society for Engineering Education Green open access

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe an exploratory study to support efforts in revising first-year courses required for engineering students. It is common to include some form of introductory programming or spreadsheet computation topics in first-year courses. The inclusions of these topics is ostensibly to provide foundational computational skills needed in later courses. However, there are many challenges associated with teaching and learning these skills, the least of which is selecting which skills to include in the finite time allotted for a first-year introductory course that may also be tasked with teaching foundational problem solving and professional skills. This study is the first stage towards identifying a core set of skills for inclusion that would be relevant for most first-year students.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Towards Identifying Core Computational Literacy Concepts for Inclusion in a First-year General Engineering Course
Event: 2021 ASEE Annual Conference
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://peer.asee.org/37922
Language: English
Additional information: © 2021 American Society for Engineering Education. Authors may archive their work on personal websites or in institutional repositories
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10132371
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