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Rashkovits, Rami; Lavy, Ilana – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2011
This study discusses and presents various strategies employed by novice programmers concerning exception handling. The main contributions of this paper are as follows: we provide an analysis tool to measure the level of assimilation of exception handling mechanism; we present and analyse strategies to handle exceptions; we present and analyse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Programming Languages, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation
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Oliver, Dave; Dobele, Tony – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2007
This paper explores the cognitive difficulty of assessment tasks in six first year computing courses within an Information Technology (IT) degree. This issue is pertinent to Information Technology education for two reasons. Degree level education in any field of study is expected to develop higher order thinking skills. Bloom's taxonomy is a…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Classification, Programming, Cognitive Processes
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Thomas, Theda; Davis, Tim; Kazlauskas, Alanah – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2007
It is important for students to develop critical thinking and other higher-order thinking skills during their tertiary studies. Along with the ability to think critically comes the need to develop students' meta-cognitive skills. These abilities work together to enable students to control, monitor, and regulate their own cognitive processes and…
Descriptors: Systems Analysis, Problem Solving, Logical Thinking, Essays