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The near blind leading the blind: One partial solution to the hacker battered student syndrome

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This paper reports on an experimental course taught by the author at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The motivation for the unusual structure of the course was to bolster student morale weakened by inadequate background. Students, whose performance in a course had been only average, were given academic credit for tutoring students in a trailing lectureless section. Student response was overwhelmingly favorable and academic results appear to be at least as good as under more traditional course structures.

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        cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
        ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 9, Issue 3
        Special issue eighth technical symposium on computer science education
        Aug 1977
        82 pages
        ISSN:0097-8418
        DOI:10.1145/382175
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          SIGCSE '77: Proceedings of the eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
          February 1977
          82 pages
          ISBN:9781450374101
          DOI:10.1145/800106

        Copyright © 1977 ACM

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