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Teaching and Learning Recursive Programming: A Review of the Research Literature
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McCauley, Renée; Grissom, Scott; Fitzgerald, Sue; Murphy, Laurie – Computer Science Education, 2015
Hundreds of articles have been published on the topics of teaching and learning recursion, yet fewer than 50 of them have published research results. This article surveys the computing education research literature and presents findings on challenges students encounter in learning recursion, mental models students develop as they learn recursion,…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Literature Reviews, Best Practices
Computer Science Concept Inventories: Past and Future
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Taylor, C.; Zingaro, D.; Porter, L.; Webb, K. C.; Lee, C. B.; Clancy, M. – Computer Science Education, 2014
Concept Inventories (CIs) are assessments designed to measure student learning of core concepts. CIs have become well known for their major impact on pedagogical techniques in other sciences, especially physics. Presently, there are no widely used, validated CIs for computer science. However, considerable groundwork has been performed in the form…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Computer Science Education, Concept Formation, Scientific Concepts
The Characteristics of Successful MOOCs in the Fields of Software, Science, and Management, According to Students' Perception
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Holstein, Simona; Cohen, Anat – Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, 2016
The characteristics of successful MOOCs were explored in this study. Thousands of student reviews regarding five xMOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) in the fields of software, science, and management were extracted from the Coursetalk website and analyzed by quantitative and qualitative methods using the Garrison, Anderson, and Archer (2000)…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Instructional Effectiveness, Computer Science Education, Computer Software
Notional Machines and Introductory Programming Education
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Sorva, Juha – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2013
This article brings together, summarizes, and comments on several threads of research that have contributed to our understanding of the challenges that novice programmers face when learning about the runtime dynamics of programs and the role of the computer in program execution. More specifically, the review covers the literature on programming…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Introductory Courses, Misconceptions
Teaching Programming in Secondary School: A Pedagogical Content Knowledge Perspective
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Saeli, Mara; Perrenet, Jacob; Jochems, Wim M. G.; Zwaneveld, Bert – Informatics in Education, 2011
The goal of this literature study is to give some preliminary answers to the questions that aim to uncover the Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) of Informatics Education, with focus on Programming. PCK has been defined as the knowledge that allows teachers to transform their knowledge of the subject into something accessible for their students.…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Programming, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Literature Reviews
Language-Independent Conceptual "Bugs" in Novice Programming. Technical Report No. 31.
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Pea, Roy D. – 1984
Persistent conceptual bugs exist in how novices, from primary school to college age, program and understand programs. These bugs are not specific to a given programming language but appear to be language-independent. The three different classes of bugs are: (1) parallelism, the assumption that different lines in a program can be active at the same…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Patterns, Higher Education