Developing a computer science-specific learning taxonomy

Authors:
Ursula Fuller;Colin G. Johnson;Tuukka Ahoniemi;Diana Cukierman;Isidoro Hernán-Losada;Jana Jackova;Essi Lahtinen;Tracy L. Lewis;Donna McGee Thompson;Charles Riedesel;Errol Thompson
Affiliations:
University of Kent, United Kingdom;University of Kent, United Kingdom;Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland;Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada;Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain;University of Zilina/Slovak, University of Technology, Zilina, Slovak Republic;Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland;Radford University, Radford, VA;Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada;University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska;Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
Venue:
Working group reports on ITiCSE on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Bloom's taxonomy of the cognitive domain and the SOLO taxonomy are being increasingly widely used in the design and assessment of courses, but there are some drawbacks to their use in computer science. This paper reviews the literature on educational taxonomies and their use in computer science education, identifies some of the problems that arise, proposes a new taxonomy and discusses how this can be used in application-oriented courses such as programming.