1. Team-Based Learning: An Innovative Approach to Learn Programming Concepts
Dr. Fernando Paniagua
Associate Professor
CSIT Department
Innovations Conference – March 2016

2. Background EESTEM Connections Faculty Learning Community
Monthly meetings
Invited guests
Presentation to Groups
Projects

3. EE-STEM Program Goal
Increase performance, participation and persistence of under-represented groups in STEM program by providing a professional growth opportunity for STEM educators that will improve classroom pedagogy and instruction

4. Hypothesis
Applying team-based learning methodology to the Laboratory Exercises in CSIT 210 – Introduction to Programming – will increase student success in the class.
Students majoring in Computer Science, need at least a B in this class in order to take the Advanced Programming Course (CSIT 211).

5. Challenges Build team-work abilities and skills
Learn to be part of a team
Understand that in the Industry, programmers always work on team.
Have the experience of real team-work interaction while learning the material for the class

6. Formation of Team

7. Distribution of roles
Project Manager
Designer
Programmer
Tester

8. Project Manager:
Submit the project on time
Organize the communication mechanism between the team members
Check that all the exercises asked in the project are completed
Rate your team members

9. Designer:
Decide the design technique (pseudocode, flow-chart, etc.) use to drive the logic of the project
Check that the exercises are logically correct before coding
Rate your team members

10. Programmer:
Implement (code) the designed created by the team
Check that the program is correctly documented (especially comment section)
Rate your team members

11. Tester:
Validate the output of the project using different set of input data
Check that all the alternatives in the logic of the project are tested
Rate your team members.

12. Team-Work Rules One role at a time
Must complete the 4 roles in four different assignments
Rate each team-member (scale 1 to 5)
Everybody earns the same common points unless you have been rated with a zero from a team-member (no common points for you).

13. Assessment
Compare success rate of CSIT 210 with previous semester

14. Assessment (cont.)
Quality Survey

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19. Sources Websites and Topics researched:
Team-based Learning – Collaborative:
What is the Collaborative Classroom?
Perspectives on Hands-on Science Teaching. What are some strategies for helping students work in group?
Competitive vs. Cooperative Learning Formats: