An Australasian study of reading and comprehension skills in novice programmers, using the bloom and SOLO taxonomies

Jacqueline L. Whalley; Raymond Lister; Errol Thompson; Tony Clear; Phil Robbins; P. K. Ajith Kumar; Christine Prasad

An Australasian study of reading and comprehension skills in novice programmers, using the bloom and SOLO taxonomies

Jacqueline L. Whalley^*, Raymond Lister, Errol Thompson, Tony Clear, Phil Robbins, P. K. Ajith Kumar, Christine Prasad

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In this paper we report on a multi-institutional investigation into the reading and comprehension skills of novice programmers. This work extends previous studies (Lister 2004, McCracken 2001) by developing a question set within two key pedagogical frameworks: the Bloom and SOLO taxonomies. From this framework of analysis some interesting emergent patterns relating the cognitive level of the questions to student performance have been identified.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series
Pages	243-252
Number of pages	10
Volume	52
Publication status	Published - 2006
Event	8th Australasian Computing Education Conference, ACE 2006 - Hobart, TAS, Australia Duration: 16 Jan 2006 → 19 Jan 2006

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Conference	8th Australasian Computing Education Conference, ACE 2006
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Hobart, TAS
Period	16/01/06 → 19/01/06

Keywords

Bloom's taxonomy
Multi-institutional
Novice programming
SOLO

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