A Rough Guide to topics in CS Education Research

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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

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CS Education Research Topicsa 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

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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

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Animation/Visualisaton/Simulation

• Environments tools for explication, exploration
  and construction of understanding
• Algorithm animation (Stasko)
• Program visualisation (Jeliot, TeaCUP, BlueJ)
• Mindstorms (Papert, Stein)

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Teaching methods

• Bridging, sense-making, dynamics of teaching
  interaction
• Soloway, Linn Clancy
• Active learning/constructionism/constructivism/lea
  rning styles
• Tony Jenkins
• Classroom methods
• Programming labs
• Project work (EPCoS)

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4. Assessment

• Types, validity, automated grading
• Bloom
• Plagiarism
• Culwin, Dick, Duley
• Classroom assessment

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5. Educational technology

• Presentational systems
• Smart classrooms. Smart whiteboards (Ideogramic)
• Pebbles
• Electronic assignment handling
• lms
• Electronic exams

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6. Transferring professional practice to the
classroom

• Software engineering models
• SWEBOK, CSEET conference
• PSP
• Watts-Humphreys
• XP pair programming
• Martin Fowler, Laurie Williams

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7. Incorporating new developments and new
technologies

• OO
• Java
• UML
• Open Source?

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8. Transferring to remote teaching

• Distance education
• Runestone
• Web-based teaching/training
• Electronic courses

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9. Recruitment/retention

• Diversity
• Gender

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10. Construction of the discipline

• Curriculum issues (implementation of CC2001)
• Is CS engineering? maths? business? (Martyn
  Clark)

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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)