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Kim, Dae-Kyoo; Jeong, Dongwon; Lu, Lunjin; Debnath, Debatosh; Ming, Hua – Computer Science Education, 2015
The need for computing education in the K-12 curriculum has grown globally. The Republic of Korea is not an exception. In response to the need, the Korean Ministry of Education has announced an outline for software-centric computing education in the K-12 system, which aims at enhancing the current computing education with software emphasis. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Computer Software
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Liberman, Neomi; Kolikant, Yifat Ben-David; Beeri, Catriel – Computer Science Education, 2012
Due to a program reform in Israel, experienced CS high-school teachers faced the need to master and teach a new programming paradigm. This situation served as an opportunity to explore the relationship between teachers' content knowledge (CK) and their pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). This article focuses on three case studies, with emphasis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Novices, Expertise, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Lavy, Ilana; Rashkovits, Rami; Kouris, Roy – Computer Science Education, 2009
One of the subjects that undergraduate students learning Object Oriented (OO) design find hard to apply is the construction of class hierarchies in general, and the use of interface classes in particular. The design process requires decomposition and reconstruction of problems in order to model software classes. The common attributes and behaviors…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Design, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods
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Kolikant, Y. Ben-David; Mussai, M. – Computer Science Education, 2008
We studied students' conceptions of correctness and their influence on students' correctness-related practices by examining how 159 students had analyzed the correctness of error-free and erroneous algorithms and by interviewing seven students regarding their work. We found that students conceptualized program correctness as the sum of the…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Computer Science Education, Science Instruction, Programming
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Sajaniemi, J.; Ben-Ari, M.; Byckling, P.; Gerdt, P.; Kulikova, Y. – Computer Science Education, 2006
Roles can be assigned to occurrences of variables in programs according to a small number of stereotypical patterns of use. Studies on explicitly teaching roles to novices learning programming have shown that roles are an excellent pedagogical tool for clarifying the structure and meaning of programs and that their use improves students'…
Descriptors: Programming, Predictor Variables, Role Perception, Role Theory
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Armoni, Michal; Gal-Ezer, Judith; Hazzan, Orit – Computer Science Education, 2006
This paper discusses the role of reduction in computer science and describes a study on undergraduate students' perception of the concept of reduction. Specifically, based on an analysis of students answers to questions addressing different computer science topics, we present several findings regarding the ways in which undergraduate students…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Computer Science
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Haberman, Bruria – Computer Science Education, 2004
Recursion is a central concept in computer science, yet it is difficult for beginners to comprehend. Israeli high-school students learn recursion in the framework of a special modular program in computer science (Gal-Ezer & Harel, 1999). Some of them are introduced to the concept of recursion in two different paradigms: the procedural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Models, Knowledge Representation, Logical Thinking
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Ragonis, Noa; Ben-Ari, Mordechai – Computer Science Education, 2005
This article describes research on the learning of object-oriented programming (OOP) by novices. During two academic years, we taught OOP to high school students, using Java and BlueJ. Our approach to teaching featured: objects-first, teaching composed classes relatively early, deferring the teaching of main methods, and focusing on class…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Investigations, Concept Teaching, Programming