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Stephanie Yang; Miles Baird; Eleanor O’Rourke; Karen Brennan; Bertrand Schneider – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2024
Students learning computer science frequently struggle with debugging errors in their code. These struggles can have significant downstream effects--negatively influencing how students assess their programming ability and contributing to their decision to drop out of CS courses. However, debugging instruction is often an overlooked topic, and…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Troubleshooting, Programming, Teaching Methods
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Dounas-Frazer, Dimitri R.; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
In this exploratory qualitative study, we describe instructors' self-reported practices for teaching and assessing students' ability to troubleshoot in electronics lab courses. We collected audio data from interviews with 20 electronics instructors from 18 institutions that varied by size, selectivity, and other factors. In addition to describing…
Descriptors: Electronics, Science Laboratories, Laboratory Training, Science Instruction