Computer Homework
Rapheal Charlton
[bignumber]The majority of eighth-grade students in the United States rely on the internet at home to get their homework done. Roughly six-in-ten students (58%) say they use the internet at their home to do homework every day or almost every day, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of data from the 2018 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Just 6% of students say they never use the internet at home for this purpose.
This analysis examines the impact of the internet and the digital divide on youth in the United States. The survey data cited here comes from a Pew Research Center poll of 743 U.S. teens conducted March 7 to April 10, 2018, using the NORC AmeriSpeak panel. AmeriSpeak is a nationally representative, probability-based panel of the U.S. household population. Randomly selected U.S. households are sampled with a known probability of selection from the NORC National Frame, and then contacted by U.S. mail, telephone or face-to-face interviewers. More details about the NORC AmeriSpeak panel methodology are available here.
Part of this analysis also relies on data from the 2018 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The NAEP administers the digitally based Technology and Engineering Literacy assessment to better understand what students in the U.S. know and can do in the areas of technology and engineering. For more, see the assessment methodology.
Another part of this analysis uses the 2015 American Community Survey (ACS) data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The ACS is a national survey using continuous measurement methods. In the survey, a series of monthly samples produce annual estimates for the same small areas (census tracts and block groups) formerly surveyed via the decennial census long-form sample. For more, see the ACS methodology.
[bignumber]Some lower-income teens say they lack resources to complete schoolwork at home. In a 2018 Center survey, about one-in-five teens ages 13 to 17 (17%) said they are often or sometimes unable to complete homework assignments because they do not have reliable access to a computer or internet connection. Black teens and those living in lower-income households were more likely to say they cannot complete homework assignments for this reason.
For example, one-quarter of black teens said they often or sometimes cannot do homework assignments due to lack of reliable access to a computer or internet connectivity, compared with 13% of white teens and 17% of Hispanic teens. Teens with an annual family income below $30,000 were also more likely to say this than teens with a family income of at least $75,000 a year (24% vs. 9%).
[bignumber]A quarter of lower-income teens do not have access to a home computer. One-in-four teens in households with an annual income under $30,000 lack access to a computer at home, compared with just 4% of those in households earning over $75,000, according to the 2018 survey. There are also differences by race and ethnicity. Hispanic teens were especially likely to say they do not have access to a home computer: 18% said this, compared with 9% of white teens and 11% of black teens.
I am currently taking computer science coursework as part of a computer science related degree at my University. I was wondering if I should upload the solutions I make for various trivial homework assignments (ie. not more than 20-30 or so lines of code, on basic/fundamental topics) to my GitHub account, or if I should only upload larger course/personal projects to it.I have only been regularly coding for about a year, and a large portion of the code I have written was for a company where I was under an NDA, so I was wondering if this would be an appropriate way to add more breadth to future job applications.
Many professors would prefer that you not post solutions to homework assignments to public Github repositories. Why? If they ever reuse those problems in a future semester, then by making the solutions publicly available you are creating a temptation to cheat for other students, and that can be detrimental. So it would be a kindness to avoid publicly posting solutions.
From my experience, I'd bet that most professors would love your enthusiasm but be very reluctant to allow it because of the issues with plagiarism and academic integrity. If you discuss it with the professor you may find that they are open to extra credit projects or something to give you some opportunity to add to your repositories. Go into the discussion fully expecting it to be a long shot.
I've had quite a few syllabi state that storing class work in a public repository would be considered a breach in our academic integrity policies, but at the same time I've also been given permission from other professors to use GitHub public repositories on a number of projects. It usually came down to if the mission of the project is unique to the student/team. When every team is creating a one of a kind project, it usually becomes less of a problem to create a public repository. The best luck I've had getting public GitHub repository approval was with professors that offed independent study extra credit opportunities and when we had group projects.
For instance, we were once asked to model a toy ontology language in a programming language of our choice, and I modelled it in Coq, the proof assistant. I do think there is some value in me having published that solution on GitHub; if only for the reason that it raises my incentive to improve it when I can spare time.
Whether professors generally mind students publishing their solutions, is apparently highly culture-dependent.The other answers by D.W. and Joshua096 report on the default in their experience being yes, i.e., you should always ask professors before hand.
In contrast, in the German academic culture I experienced, the default was that you can share anything. In fact, our student council publicly collects old written/oral exam questions. And professors know this; some even recommend you to take a look at them. Rarely do they kindly ask you to not publish things, knowing they couldn't/wouldn't want to go down to legal path of forcing you anyway.
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CPS 107 is the UWSP Data Analytics Lab and IT Computer Classroom located in the College of Professional Studies (CPS). This computer classroom benefits from shared redesign costs between the UWSP Data Analytics Department and UWSP Information Technology. When not scheduled for full-term Data Analytics classes, CPS 107 is available for scheduling requests.
NFAC 190 is a Computer Classroom located in the Noel Fine Arts Center (NFAC). NFAC 190 is a Mac classroom with a flatbed scanner, two Wacom tablets, and a color printer. A 48" banner printer is also available for students and their projects.
MSF 404F is a PC Computer Classroom located on the UW Stevens Point at Marshfield campus within the Hamilton Roddis Memorial Library. A color printer is located just outside the lab within the library.
WAU 146 is a PC Computer Classroom located on the UW Stevens Point at Wausau campus next to the campus Library. A PC teaching station and projector are available in the room.
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