Naturally occurring data as research instrument

Raymond Lister, Phil Robbins, Otto Seppälä, Errol Thompson, Tony Clear, Simon, Dennis J. Bouvier, Paul Carter, Anna Eckerdal, Jana Jacková, Mike Lopez, Robert McCartney
2010 ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  
In New Zealand and Australia, the BRACElet project has been investigating students' acquisition of programming skills in introductory programming courses. The project has explored students' skills in basic syntax, tracing code, understanding code, and writing code, seeking to establish the relationships between these skills. This ITiCSE working group report presents the most recent step in the BRACElet project, which includes replication of earlier analysis using a far broader pool of naturally
more » ... occurring data, refinement of the SOLO taxonomy in code-explaining questions, extension of the taxonomy to code-writing questions, extension of some earlier studies on students' 'doodling' while answering exam questions, and exploration of a further theoretical basis for work that until now has been primarily empirical.
doi:10.1145/1709424.1709460 fatcat:fcehfovyc5b67h7ubsejtgqlcq