First Year Computer Science Projects at Coventry University: Activity-led integrative team projects with continuous assessment.

Simon Billings; Matthew England

doi:10.1145/3372356.3372358

First Year Computer Science Projects at Coventry University: Activity-led integrative team projects with continuous assessment.

Simon Billings, Matthew England

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Abstract

We describe the group projects undertaken by first year undergraduate Computer Science students at Coventry University. These are integrative course projects: designed to bring together the topics from the various modules students take, to apply them as a coherent whole. They follow an activity-led approach, with students given a loose brief and a lot of freedom in how to develop their project.
We outline the new regulations at Coventry University which eases the use of such integrative projects. We then describe our continuous assessment approach: where students earn a weekly mark by demonstrating progress to a teacher as an open presentation to the class. It involves a degree of self and peer assessment and allows for an assessment of group work that is both fair, and seen to be fair. It builds attendance, self-study / continuous engagement habits, public speaking / presentation skills, and rewards group members for making meaningful individual contributions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CEP 2020: Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Computing Education Practice 2020
Publisher	ACM
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-7729-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3372356.3372358
Publication status	Published - 13 Jan 2020
Event	Computing Education Practice 2020 - Durham, United Kingdom Duration: 9 Jan 2020 → 9 Jan 2020 Conference number: 4th http://community.dur.ac.uk/cep.conference/2020/index.php

Publication series

Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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Conference	Computing Education Practice 2020
Abbreviated title	CEP
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Durham
Period	9/01/20 → 9/01/20
Internet address	http://community.dur.ac.uk/cep.conference/2020/index.php

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© ACM, 2020. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in CEP 2020: Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Computing Education Practice 2020, http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/10.1145/3372356.3372358

Keywords

Programming Education
Continuous Assessment
Self-Assessment
Integrative Projects
Activity Led Learning
Group Projects

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First Year Computer Science Projects at Coventry University: Activity-led integrative team projects with continuous assessment. / Billings, Simon; England, Matthew.
CEP 2020: Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Computing Education Practice 2020. ACM, 2020. 2 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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Billings, S & England, M 2020, First Year Computer Science Projects at Coventry University: Activity-led integrative team projects with continuous assessment. in CEP 2020: Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Computing Education Practice 2020., 2, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, ACM, Computing Education Practice 2020, Durham, United Kingdom, 9/01/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3372356.3372358

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