Current learning outcomes for introductory programming courses are relatively general,
specifying tasks such as designing, implementing, testing and debugging programs that use …

Mastery learning is a pedagogical approach in which students must demonstrate mastery of
the currently assessed unit of material before being permitted to progress to the next unit …

In our first year computer science program we offer an optional first semester Python course
to prepare our students for a compulsory second semester Java course. In 2014, we …

This report documents the implementation of a self-paced, mastery learning inspired CS1
course. The course was designed to increase the completion rates observed in flipped and …

Mastery Learning, a pedagogical strategy in which students are allowed to prove mastery of
the skills acquired in a course over multiple attempts (and used failed attempts as feedback) …

Mastery Learning is a pedagogical strategy that allows students to demonstrate mastery of
the skills acquired in a course over multiple attempts. Failed attempts are used to provide …

Mastery Learning involves delineating learning units and assessing each unit individually
and repeatedly until a student obtains success. Mastery Learning has been shown to help …

This experience report describes the use of frequent, timed coding tests in a project-
intensive software engineering course in which students first learn full-stack web …

Feedback plays an essential role in the student learning process. It helps to improve
students' understandings of their subject, and has also been shown to increase students' …