Title

A multi-institutional investigation of computer science seniors' knowledge of programming concepts

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2005

Publication Title

Sigcse Bulletin

Department

Mathematics and Computer Science

Abstract

Research on learning suggests the importance of helping students organize their knowledge around meaningful patterns of information. This paper reports on a multi-institutional study to investigate how senior computer science majors articulate and organize their knowledge of programming concepts using a card-sorting technique adopted from knowledge acquisition. We show that card-sorts are an effective means of eliciting students' knowledge structures and suggest they can also be used to help students organize their knowledge throughout the curriculum.

Volume

37

Issue

1

pp.

510-514

ISSN

0097-8418

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