Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2015

Publication Title

Proceedings of SITE 2015: Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference

Pages

934-937

Conference Name

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, Las Vegas NV, United States March 1-6, 2015

Abstract

Writing has been recognized as an important skill in the technology field. This paper reports a study that uses a scaffolding approach to improve student writing skills in a computer science literacy course. While the quantitative results do not show a significant impact of scaffolding in individual paper assignment on the subsequent group wiki assignment, the student feedback in end-of-semester evaluations strongly indicated that scaffolding indeed helped improve their writing.

Comments

Copyright by AACE. Reprinted from the and with permission of AACE (http://www.aace.org).

Original Publication Citation

He, W., Wu, H., Xu, L., & Maly, K. (2015). Scaffolding to improve writing skills in computer science literacy course. Paper presented at the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, Las Vegas NV, United States March 1-6, 2015.

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