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This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 27 Feb 2025 16:22 - 16:41 at Meeting Room 407 - Data Science #2

Teaching assistants (TAs) are well-poised to improve student performance and retention—particularly for those from minoritized backgrounds. In this experience report, we present a TA pedagogy course that trains TAs to effectively teach large-scale undergraduate courses in data science—and does so by centering inclusion and the classroom as a social space of engagement. This curriculum is grounded in a justice-oriented pedagogy framework and also tackles the interdisciplinary teaching skills necessary to teach data science. Course topics cover pedagogical frameworks and evidence-based teaching practices alongside professional and management skills that reflect the TA’s dual positionalities as instructor and student. We present our experiences with offering this semester-long course and discuss how to adapt this course to other higher education institutions.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 27 Feb

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15:45 - 17:00
Data Science #2Papers at Meeting Room 407
15:45
18m
Talk
How Novices Use Program Visualizations to Understand Code that Manipulates Data Tables
Papers
Ylesia Wu UC San Diego, Qirui Zheng UC San Diego, Sam Lau University of California at San Diego
16:03
18m
Talk
Jupyter Analytics: A Toolkit for Collecting, Analyzing, and Visualizing Distributed Student Activity in Jupyter NotebooksGlobal
Papers
Zhenyu Cai EPFL, Richard Davis EPFL, Raphaël Mariétan École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Roland Tormey École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Pierre Dillenbourg École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
16:22
18m
Talk
Teaching Our Teacher Assistants to Thrive: A Reflexive, Inclusive Approach to Scalable Undergraduate Education
Papers
Lisa Yan UC Berkeley
16:41
18m
Talk
Toolkit for Educators of Data Science: Using physical computing to support data science education in the classroom.K12
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Lorraine Underwood Lancaster University, Elizabeth Edwards Lancaster University, Elisa Rubegni Lancaster University, Steve Hodges Lancaster University, John Vidler Lancaster University, Joe Finney Lancaster University