Successful students' strategies for getting unstuck

  • Authors:
  • Robert McCartney;Anna Eckerdal;Jan Erik Mostrom;Kate Sanders;Carol Zander

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Connecticut;Uppsala University;Umea University;Rhode Island College;University of Washington: Bothell

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Students often "get stuck" when trying to learn new computing concepts and skills. In this paper, we present and categorize strategies that successful students found helpful in getting unstuck. We found that the students reported using a broad range of strategies, and that these strategies fall into a number of recognizably different categories.