What do beginning students know, and what can they do?

Authors:
Tzu-Yi Chen;Gary Lewandowski;Robert McCartney;Kate Sanders;Beth Simon
Affiliations:
Pomona College, Claremont, CA;Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH;University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT;Rhode Island College, Providence, RI;University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 11th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Year:
2006

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Abstract

We are studying what students know about computer science-related topics before they take formal coursework at the university level. Preliminary results suggest that entering students have a fairly sophisticated understanding of algorithms. We are exploring other central computing topics for similar shared commonsense understanding.