Designing Case Studies to Teach Complex Problem Solving: Capitalizing on Advanced Technologies

这个项目的目标是教学生在入门 编程类来解决复杂的编程问题， 重要领域社会科学。 这些问题的复杂性 通过设计和评估案例研究，解决有效的 社会科学中的编程问题。 程序员如何存储和 重用知识将通过创建一个 超媒体编程知识 案例研究将说明 程序员如何将社会知识领域中的联合收割机原理 科学和编程环境的约束，并描述如何 这些知识库可用于设计复杂的 问题 为了实现这些目标，并充分利用 在20世纪90年代，我们特别计划（a）研究专家如何获得 利用编程知识解决社会中的复杂问题， 科学，（B）使用超媒体创建模型问题库 学生可获得的解决方案，（c）使用原则， 学徒式学习，设计可在真实的环境中使用的案例研究 教授学生使用库设计解决方案的技能， 复杂的社会科学问题，（d）教学生解决复杂的 社会科学问题使用非程序语言非常适合 （e）满足代表性不足的学生的需要 包括女性在内的编程课程。

The goal of this project is to teach students in introductory programming classes to solve complex programming problems in an important domain--social science. Complexity in these problems will be dealt with by designing and evaluating case studies that address valid programming problems from social science. How programmers store and reuse knowledge will be communicated by creating a "library" of programming knowledge in hypermedia. The case studies will illustrate how programmers combine principles from the knowledge domain of social science and constraints of the programming environment and describe how the library of this knowledge can be used to design solutions to complex problems. To accomplish these goals and take full advantage of the technologies of the of the 1990s, specially we plan to (a) examine how experts attain and use knowledge of programming to solve complex problems in social science, (b) use hypermedia to create a library of model problem solutions accessible to students, (c) use principles from apprenticeship learning to devise case studies usable in real settings that teach students skills to use the library to design solutions to complex social science problems, (d) teach students to solve complex social science problems using a non-procedural language well-suited to the problem demands, and (e) meet the needs of students underrepresented in programming classes including women.