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Veerasamy, Ashok Kumar; D'Souza, Daryl; Laakso, Mikko-Jussi – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2016
This article presents a study aimed at examining the novice student answers in an introductory programming final e-exam to identify misconceptions and types of errors. Our study used the Delphi concept inventory to identify student misconceptions and skill, rule, and knowledge-based errors approach to identify the types of errors made by novices…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Novices, Misconceptions
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Taherkhani, Ahmad; Korhonen, Ari; Malmi, Lauri – Computer Science Education, 2012
In this study, we examined freshmen students' sorting algorithm implementations in data structures and algorithms' course in two phases: at the beginning of the course before the students received any instruction on sorting algorithms, and after taking a lecture on sorting algorithms. The analysis revealed that many students have insufficient…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classification, Mathematics, Computer Science Education