Papers presented at the first workshop on empirical studies of programmers on Empirical studies of programmers
Fragile knowledge and neglected strategies in novice programmers
Papers presented at the first workshop on empirical studies of programmers on Empirical studies of programmers
Characteristics of the mental representations of novice and expert programmers: an empirical study
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
The incredible shrinking pipeline
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin - Women and Computing
Studying the Novice Programmer
Studying the Novice Programmer
A multi-national study of reading and tracing skills in novice programmers
Working group reports from ITiCSE on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Not seeing the forest for the trees: novice programmers and the SOLO taxonomy
Proceedings of the 11th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
ACE '06 Proceedings of the 8th Australasian Conference on Computing Education - Volume 52
Grand Challenges in Computing: Education---A Summary
The Computer Journal
Proceedings of the third international workshop on Computing education research
Bloom's taxonomy for CS assessment
ACE '08 Proceedings of the tenth conference on Australasian computing education - Volume 78
After the gold rush: toward sustainable scholarship in computing
ACE '08 Proceedings of the tenth conference on Australasian computing education - Volume 78
Evaluating a new exam question: Parsons problems
ICER '08 Proceedings of the Fourth international Workshop on Computing Education Research
Fostering individual learning: when and how
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
Analysis of research into the teaching and learning of programming
ICER '09 Proceedings of the fifth international workshop on Computing education research workshop
The BRACElet 2009.1 (Wellington) specification
ACE '09 Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian Conference on Computing Education - Volume 95
A taxonomic study of novice programming summative assessment
ACE '09 Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian Conference on Computing Education - Volume 95
Surely we must learn to read before we learn to write!
ACE '09 Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian Conference on Computing Education - Volume 95
Reviewing CS1 exam question content
Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
A mid-career review of teaching computer science I
Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
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BRACElet is a multi-institutional multi-national research study of how novice programmers comprehend and write computer programs. This paper reviews the first action research cycle of the BRACElet project and, in the process, charts a path for the upcoming second cycle. The project remains close to educational practice, with much of the data being either data collected directly from exams sat by novices, or data from think-out-loud protocols where the task undertaken by a novice or an expert is modelled on an exam question. The first action research cycle analysed data in terms of the SOLO taxonomy. From think-aloud responses, the authors found that educators tended to manifest a SOLO relational response on small reading problems, whereas students tended to manifest a multistructural response. Furthermore, those students who manifested a relational response tended to do better overall in the exam than students who manifested a multistructural response. The second action research cycle will explore the relationship between the ability to read code and the ability to write code. Apart from reporting on the BRACElet project itself, this paper serves as an invitation for institutions and individuals to join the second action research cycle of the BRACElet project.