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This is really interesting. Any links to relevant research? I'd love to read up.
by jfarmer 7y ago
This is really interesting. Any links to relevant research? I'd love to read up.
- keithnz 7y agoI was interested in research on this as well, just googling I found http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/cetuss/Events/2005-12/program/Beth.pdf http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/cetuss/Events/2005-12/pro... which studies how students go about tracing a piece of code. It doesn't go into learning techniques, but categorizes the techniques first year students use to trace code (which they say is often poorly done). It seems interesting base level research to start with. It was kind of interesting to monitor my own mind when I traced the example code to see how I went about it also.
- primitivesuave 7y agoUnable to find the paper but can link you to the professor doing the research: https://publish.illinois.edu/glherman/conceptual-change-in-engineering-education/ https://publish.illinois.edu/glherman/conceptual-change-in-e... The paper linked adjacent to this comment looks interesting as well. What I gathered from the experience was that if you can capture student activity while they are tracing (e.g. eye tracking, recording incremental changes to a doodling interface and doing some pattern recognition on it, etc) you can fairly accurately and repeatably figure out their structural thinking ability.