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Nell Dale Pull Quotes
Nell Dale retired from the University of Texas at Austin where she was a senior lecturer in the Computer Sciences Department. Nell was awarded both the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom and the SIGCSE Outstanding Educator Awards. Dr. Dale is known for her textbooks for introductory computing courses and her pioneering work in Computer Science Education Research.
This webpage gives excerpts taken from the interview of Nell Dale conducted on the 18th of April 2006 in Austin, Texas by Barbara Boucher Owens. The entire interview and transcript are also available from here.
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"It wasn't until this PhD program was put in that I realized what sorts of things one could do in Computer Science Education research. I was always collecting data on what was going on in my classes and then several semesters later throwing it away because I didn't really know what to do with it. And it was the first couple of dissertations that I worked on that taught me what computer science education research was. So my regret is that I didn't get involved in it much, much earlier. But what I learned about it I learned from my students as I was working with them. And it I think the successes that I have seen in their work is that that they are quantifiable, that we know some things that we didn't know." Link to this audio snippet in new window "My teaching philosophy is really case-based. If I had my way everything would begin with a problem, a solution to the problem and then a description of the syntax which does the solution" Link to this audio snippet in new window |
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