One of the most time-consuming aspects of teaching is grading homework assignments. So here’s an interesting crowdsourcing tool from Luca de Alfaro and Michael Shavlovsky at the University of ...
Do American students have too much homework, or too little? We often hear passionate arguments for either side, but I believe that we ought to be asking a different question altogether. What should ...
MIT researchers have developed a new system to help instructors review computer science homework assignments in courses with hundreds or thousands of students. While instructors can easily create ...
University of Louisiana at Lafayette student Joseph Kokenge gave his high school computer science assignments, by his own admission, considerably more attention than other subjects. “I found myself ...
A plagiarism investigation at the Georgia Institute of Technology has resulted in admissions of guilt by a majority of the students who were suspected of copying computer-science homework last fall.
A Texas teacher's note to parents about her newly implemented "no formal homework policy" in her second-grade class went viral last week, opening up the floodgates for parents, teachers and school ...
The optimal amount of homework for 13-year-old students is about an hour a day, a study published earlier this month in the Journal of Educational Psychology suggests. And spending too much time on ...
The curriculum for the Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science is based on current recommendations of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for liberal arts institutions. The program is ...