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

Laurie Murphy; Timothy Fossum; Susan Haller; Kate Sanders; Renée McCauley; Briana B. Morrison; Carol Zander; Suzanne Westbrook; Brad Richards; Ruth E. Anderson

doi:10.1145/1047124.1047505

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

Laurie Murphy, Timothy Fossum, Susan Haller, Kate Sanders, Renée McCauley, Briana B. Morrison, Carol Zander, Suzanne Westbrook, Brad Richards, Ruth E. Anderson

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	510-514
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	1581139977, 9781581139976
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1047124.1047505
State	Published - 2005
Event	Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005 - St. Louis, MO, United States Duration: Feb 23 2005 → Feb 27 2005

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Name	Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005

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Other	Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005
Country/Territory	United States
City	St. Louis, MO
Period	2/23/05 → 2/27/05

Keywords

Card sort
Content analysis
Expertise
Knowledge

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Engineering

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Murphy, L., Fossum, T., Haller, S., Sanders, K., McCauley, R., Morrison, B. B., Zander, C., Westbrook, S., Richards, B., & Anderson, R. E. (2005). A multi-institutional investigation of computer science seniors' knowledge of programming concepts. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005 (pp. 510-514). (Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/1047124.1047505

A multi-institutional investigation of computer science seniors' knowledge of programming concepts. / Murphy, Laurie; Fossum, Timothy; Haller, Susan et al.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005. Association for Computing Machinery, 2005. p. 510-514 (Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Murphy, L, Fossum, T, Haller, S, Sanders, K, McCauley, R, Morrison, BB, Zander, C, Westbrook, S, Richards, B & Anderson, RE 2005, A multi-institutional investigation of computer science seniors' knowledge of programming concepts. in Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005. Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 510-514, Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005, St. Louis, MO, United States, 2/23/05. https://doi.org/10.1145/1047124.1047505

Murphy L, Fossum T, Haller S, Sanders K, McCauley R, Morrison BB et al. A multi-institutional investigation of computer science seniors' knowledge of programming concepts. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005. Association for Computing Machinery. 2005. p. 510-514. (Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005). doi: 10.1145/1047124.1047505

Murphy, Laurie ; Fossum, Timothy ; Haller, Susan et al. / A multi-institutional investigation of computer science seniors' knowledge of programming concepts. Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005. Association for Computing Machinery, 2005. pp. 510-514 (Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005).

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