TY - GEN
T1 - Through the looking glass
T2 - 37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
AU - Decker, Adrienne
AU - Ventura, Phil
AU - Egert, Christopher
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Over the last several years, there have been reports of many institutions using undergraduate students as teaching assistants (UTAs) in the classroom for CS1 as well as other courses in the curriculum. The literature has shown successes over a wide range of class sizes and UTA responsibilities. At University at Buffalo, we have been using undergraduates as teaching assistants in our CS1 course since Spring 2002, and have been impressed with the results. Throughout the deployment of the UTA program, the instructors of CS1 have observed that when UTAs are utilized in the classroom, both the students and the UTAs themselves benefit from their interactions. The UTAs have also become actively involved in providing feedback about the course design and have been suggesting improvements to assignments and in-class examples. They have also been involved in the process to hire new UTAs to replace those that are graduating. We have observed that such interactions have improved the UTAs sense of investment and ownership in the CS1 course.
AB - Over the last several years, there have been reports of many institutions using undergraduate students as teaching assistants (UTAs) in the classroom for CS1 as well as other courses in the curriculum. The literature has shown successes over a wide range of class sizes and UTA responsibilities. At University at Buffalo, we have been using undergraduates as teaching assistants in our CS1 course since Spring 2002, and have been impressed with the results. Throughout the deployment of the UTA program, the instructors of CS1 have observed that when UTAs are utilized in the classroom, both the students and the UTAs themselves benefit from their interactions. The UTAs have also become actively involved in providing feedback about the course design and have been suggesting improvements to assignments and in-class examples. They have also been involved in the process to hire new UTAs to replace those that are graduating. We have observed that such interactions have improved the UTAs sense of investment and ownership in the CS1 course.
KW - CS1
KW - Undergraduate teaching assistants
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/37849030798
U2 - 10.1145/1121341.1121358
DO - 10.1145/1121341.1121358
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:37849030798
SN - 9781595932594
T3 - Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
SP - 46
EP - 50
BT - Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
Y2 - 1 March 2006 through 5 March 2006
ER -