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Loyola College-The Small Jesuit Liberal Arts College and CS

Loyola College-The Small Jesuit Liberal Arts College and CS. Loyola College-The Small Jesuit Liberal Arts College and CS. Teaching Focus, Private school About 3,200 students Primarily from New York Area CS has highest percent of commuters About 28 undergrad CS majors

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Loyola College-The Small Jesuit Liberal Arts College and CS

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  1. Loyola College-The Small Jesuit Liberal Arts College and CS

  2. Loyola College-The Small Jesuit Liberal Arts College and CS • Teaching Focus, Private school • About 3,200 students • Primarily from New York Area • CS has highest percent of commuters • About 28 undergrad CS majors • About 25% of undergrad CS degrees to women

  3. Loyola: CS1 course • One 4 credit intro CS course: Intro to Java Programming • Lectures & hands-on, supervised, pair-programming labs

  4. Loyola: PLTL • Loyola PLTL students take the course plus 2 hours per week 1 credit peer-led team learning course • In the Fall of 2006, three team leaders and 8 CS1 students

  5. Loyola: PLTL • Multiple team leaders allowed them to ‘cover each other weaknesses’ • Same three team leaders as 2005 • Gave team leaders opportunity to grow by • generating exercises • taking greater classroom responsibility

  6. Loyola: CS1 relation to PLTL • Exercises closely tied to course content (a student preference) • Exercises designed to enhance understanding of CS and generate community

  7. Does PLTL increase number of women & minorities who continue in CS? • 33% of non PLTL students are in CS2 • 50% of PLTL students are in CS2 • (half women)

  8. Evaluation • Highly favorable assessment of peer-led sessions and the peer leaders • All would recommend the course to a friend • 76% of the non-participants and all participants found value in the lab and in working individually with the instructor

  9. Open Questions(same as last year ) • Recruitment: How to attract students not in CS1 to CS1 and to Loyola • Letters sent to prospective students who have been accepted to the College • Plug made at summer registration for core advisors to mention PLTL section

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