Investigation of the flipped classroom with extreme practices in an introductory programming course

Abstract

In the last few years there has been a considerable rise in the use and interest in a teaching and learning paradigm most commonly called the flipped classroom. Flipped classroom is an instructional practice, wherein the students learn the subject matter by watching instructional videos at home and engage in active learning exercises in the class guided by the instructor. By moving class lectures to home, time becomes available for students to engage in collaborative learning activities, engage more deeply with the subject matter, and get prompt feedback from the instructor. The most striking feature of the flipped model is that it maximizes student-to-student, student-to-instructor and student-to-content interaction during class time. Extreme Pedagogy , is a conceptual educational framework developed to improve the quality of teaching and learning. In an extreme pedagogical framework, the traditional teaching-teaching learning practices are taken to an extreme level . The four such practices are: goal-driven teaching, pair-learning, instructor-student interaction and continuous assessments. CS1 (Computer Science 1) is an introductory programming course taught in all computing disciplines at the college level. Research reports that CS1 students find it difficult to learn to program, have difficulty with programming courses, thus resulting in high drop-out and failure rates. Teaching programming is considered one of the seven grand challenges in computing education. Hence, there is a need to design effective instructional method to enhance programming students motivation, self-efficacy and performance. newline