Salient elements in novice solutions to code writing problems

Authors:
Jacqueline Whalley;Tony Clear;Phil Robbins;Errol Thompson
Affiliations:
AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand;AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand;AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand;The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Venue:
ACE '11 Proceedings of the Thirteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference - Volume 114
Year:
2011

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Abstract

This paper presents an approach to the evaluation of novice programmers' solutions to code writing problems. The first step was the development a framework comprised of the salient elements, or programming constructs, used in a set of student solutions to three typical code writing assessment problems. This framework was then refined to provide a code quality factor framework that was compared with an analysis using the SOLO taxonomy. We found that combining our framework with the SOLO taxonomy helped to define the SOLO categories and provided an improved approach to applying the principles of SOLO to code writing problems.