Colloquia, Seminars and Conference News
Title : Categorizing student software designs: How do graduating students design software?
Date : January 27, 2006. (2:00 pm) Tea starts half an hour before each seminar
Location: ITEB 336
Speaker : Robert McCartney
Abstract:
In this talk, I describe results from an analysis of student-generated software designs collected in a large multi-institutional, multi-national study. By using a semantic categorization, we were able to group software designs based on meaningful characteristics. Subsequent analysis suggests that students are not well-prepared for open-ended or under-defined tasks. This work is joint with Anna Eckerdal, Jan Erik Mostrˆm, Mark Ratcliffe, and Carol Zander.
Additionally, I will discuss some general issues concerned with Computer
Science Education research, with emphasis on multi-institutional,
multi-national empirical studies.
Bio:
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