Challenges Faced by Teaching Assistants in Computer Science Education Across Europe

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3430665.3456304" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3430665.3456304</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3430665.3456304" target="_blank" >10.1145/3430665.3456304</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Challenges Faced by Teaching Assistants in Computer Science Education Across Europe

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Teaching assistants (TAs) are heavily used in computer science courses as a way to handle high enrollment and still being able to offer students individual tutoring and detailed assessments. TAs are themselves students who take on this additional role in parallel with their own studies at the same institution. Previous research has shown that being a TA can be challenging but has mainly been conducted on TAs from a single institution or within a single course. This paper offers a multi-institutional, multi-national perspective of challenges that TAs in computer science face. This has been done by conducting a thematic analysis of 180 reflective essays written by TAs from three institutions across Europe. The thematic analysis resulted in five main challenges: becoming a professional TA, student focused challenges, assessment, defining and using best practice, and threats to best practice. In addition, these challenges were all identified within the essays from all three institutions, indicating that the identified challenges are not particularly context-dependent. Based on these findings, we also outline implications for educators involved in TA training and coordinators of computer science courses with TAs.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Challenges Faced by Teaching Assistants in Computer Science Education Across Europe

Popis výsledku anglicky

Teaching assistants (TAs) are heavily used in computer science courses as a way to handle high enrollment and still being able to offer students individual tutoring and detailed assessments. TAs are themselves students who take on this additional role in parallel with their own studies at the same institution. Previous research has shown that being a TA can be challenging but has mainly been conducted on TAs from a single institution or within a single course. This paper offers a multi-institutional, multi-national perspective of challenges that TAs in computer science face. This has been done by conducting a thematic analysis of 180 reflective essays written by TAs from three institutions across Europe. The thematic analysis resulted in five main challenges: becoming a professional TA, student focused challenges, assessment, defining and using best practice, and threats to best practice. In addition, these challenges were all identified within the essays from all three institutions, indicating that the identified challenges are not particularly context-dependent. Based on these findings, we also outline implications for educators involved in TA training and coordinators of computer science courses with TAs.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE ’21)

ISBN

9781450382144

ISSN

1942-647X

e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

7

Strana od-do

547-553

Název nakladatele

ACM

Místo vydání

Paderborn, Germany

Místo konání akce

Paderborn, Germany

Datum konání akce

26. 6. 2021

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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