An Australasian study of reading and comprehension skills in novice programmers, using the bloom and SOLO taxonomies

  • Authors:

  • Jacqueline L. Whalley;Raymond Lister;Errol Thompson;Tony Clear;Phil Robbins;P. K. Ajith Kumar;Christine Prasad

  • Affiliations:

  • Computer and Information Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand;Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, Broadway, NSW, Australia;Department of Information Systems, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand;Computer and Information Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand;Computer and Information Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand;Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Tauranga, New Zealand;School of Computing and Information Technology, Unitec New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • ACE '06 Proceedings of the 8th Australasian Conference on Computing Education - Volume 52
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we report on a multiinstitutional investigation into the reading and comprehension skills of novice programmers. This work extends previous studies (Lister 2004, McCracken 2001) by developing a question set within two key pedagogical frameworks: the Bloom and SOLO taxonomies. From this framework of analysis some interesting emergent patterns relating the cognitive level of the questions to student performance have been identified.