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A Rough Guide to topics in CS Education Research. BRACE (Building Research in Australasian Computing Education) First Workshop, Dunedin, 23-26 January 2004. CS Education Research Topics: a matter of motivation. Student understanding Animation/Visualisation/Simulation Teaching methods
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A Rough Guide to topics in CS Education Research BRACE (Building Research in Australasian Computing Education) First Workshop, Dunedin, 23-26 January 2004
CS Education Research Topics:a matter of motivation • Student understanding • Animation/Visualisation/Simulation • Teaching methods • Assessment • Educational technology • Transferring professional practice to the classroom • Incorporating new developments & new technologies • Transferring to remote teaching • Recruitment/retention • Construction of the discipline
Student understanding • Learner-centred. Often concerned with: • eliciting models & misconceptions • teaching difficult concepts • order of concept acquisition • Can be “broad” – design behaviours, programming languages, programming paradigms or “specific” - recursion
Animation/Visualisaton/Simulation • Environments & tools for explication, exploration and construction of understanding • Algorithm animation (Stasko) • Program visualisation (Jeliot, TeaCUP, BlueJ) • Mindstorms (Papert, Stein)
Teaching methods • Bridging, sense-making, dynamics of teaching interaction • Soloway, Linn & Clancy • Active learning/constructionism/constructivism/learning styles • Tony Jenkins • Classroom methods • Programming labs • Project work (EPCoS)
4. Assessment • Types, validity, automated grading • Bloom • Plagiarism • Culwin, Dick, Duley • Classroom assessment
5. Educational technology • Presentational systems • Smart classrooms. Smart whiteboards (Ideogramic) • Pebbles • Electronic assignment handling • lms • Electronic exams
6. Transferring professional practice to the classroom • Software engineering models • SWEBOK, CSEE&T conference • PSP • Watts-Humphreys • XP – pair programming • Martin Fowler, Laurie Williams
7. Incorporating new developments and new technologies • OO • Java • UML • Open Source?
8. Transferring to remote teaching • Distance education • Runestone • Web-based teaching/training • Electronic courses
9. Recruitment/retention • Diversity • Gender
10. Construction of the discipline • Curriculum issues (implementation of CC2001) • Is CS engineering? maths? business? (Martyn Clark)
Represented in your reading packs … • Student understanding (McCraken et al Ray) • Teaching methods (Wolfman Quentin, Bonwell & Eison Maryam, Duke et al Simon, Fowler et al, Jodi) • Assessment (Lister & Leaney Ilona, Lister Michael) • Educational technology (Greenberg et al Bob) • Recruitment/retention (Wright & Lander Margaret) • Construction of the discipline (Stein Patricia, Snell et al Tineke, Dijkstra Anthony)