A multi-institutional, multinational study of programming concepts using card sort data |
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| Authors: | Kate Sanders,Sally Fincher,Dennis Bouvier,Gary Lewandowski,Briana Morrison,Laurie Murphy,Marian Petre,Brad Richards,Josh Tenenberg,Lynda Thomas,Richard Anderson,Ruth Anderson,Sue Fitzgerald,Alicia Gutschow,Susan Haller,Raymond Lister,René e McCauley,John McTaggart,Christine Prasad,Terry Scott,Dermot Shinners-Kennedy,Suzanne Westbrook, Carol Zander |
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| Affiliation: | Mathematics and Computer Science, Rhode Island College, USA; Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, UK; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Parks College of Engineering, Aviation, and Technology, Saint Louis University, USA; Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Xavier University, Cincinnati, USA; Department of Computer Science, Southern Polytechnic State University, USA; Computer Science and Computer Engineering Department, Pacific Lutheran University, USA; Computing Department, Open University, UK; Department of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA; Computing and Software Systems, Institute of Technology, University of Washington, Tacoma, USA; Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK; Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA; Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, USA; Information and Computer Sciences, Metropolitan State University, USA; Information Technology and Computer Science, Blue Ridge Community College, Virginia, USA; Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin –Parkside, USA; Department of Software Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia; Department of Computer Science, College of Charleston, USA; Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Drake University, USA; School of Computing and Information Technology, UNITEC, New Zealand; Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, USA; Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Limerick, Ireland; Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona, USA; Computing and Software Systems, University of Washington, Bothell, USA |
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| Abstract: | Abstract: This paper presents a case study of the use of a repeated single‐criterion card sort with an unusually large, diverse participant group. The study, whose goal was to elicit novice programmers' knowledge of programming concepts, involved over 20 researchers from four continents and 276 participants drawn from 20 different institutions. In this paper we present the design of the study and the unexpected result that there were few discernible systematic differences in the population. The study was one of the activities of the National Science Foundation funded Bootstrapping Research in Computer Science Education project (2003). |
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| Keywords: | computer science education research card sort elicitation programming concepts |
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