Behind the curtain: students' use of VIP after class

Authors:
Essi Isohanni;Maria Knobelsdorf
Affiliations:
Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland;Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Venue:
Proceedings of the Sixth international workshop on Computing education research
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Previous visualization research has focused mainly on specific tools. This paper presents an alternative approach that focuses on the students and what use they typically make of the tool. Taking students who voluntarily and regularly use the program visualization tool Visual InterPreter (VIP) for their programming assignments, we conducted a qualitative empirical study to observe how these students go about solving assignments with VIP. In the data analysis, we reconstructed students' usage activities with VIP and their successful as well as inconclusive use of strategies, which we then conceptualized to students' working patterns.