anything about self-theories (Dweck).
Laurie Murphy and I wrote a paper about this for ItiCSe a few years ago
Dangers of a fixed mindset: implications of self-theories research for computer
science education
and then I was involved in an intervention that was not successful.
I think that people at Glasgow have had some success with this though
It's the fundamental problem isn't it?
Lynda
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Cyfrifiadureg * Computer Science
Prifysgol Aberystwyth University
l...@aber.ac.uk SY23 3DB (01970)622452
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From: Gergely Buday [gbu...@gmail.com]
Sent: 22 April 2013 08:14
To: Ppig-Discuss-List
Subject: teaching programming to the unmotivated
Hi,
I teach programming to students who do not really know why they came
into the course called business informatics, who are not really versed
in mathematics and, possibly because of these, are not motivated to do
hard work grasping the concepts and to hack a lot. I feel that they
are not fond of problem solving, even in the everyday sense: some of
them do not care if they meet a problem, just give up.
I guess some of you were faced to this problem, so ask: how can I
motivate these students?
What is a must to read on this topic?
- Gergely
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