Decoding doodles: novice programmers and their annotations

Authors:
Jacqueline Whalley;Christine Prasad;P. K. Ajith Kumar
Affiliations:
Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand;School of Computing and Information Technology, Auckland, New Zealand;Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Tauranga, New Zealand
Venue:
ACE '07 Proceedings of the ninth Australasian conference on Computing education - Volume 66
Year:
2007

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Abstract

This paper reports on the annotations made by novice programming students on an exam script. We investigate the level of reasoning that the students achieve when answering a short answer question using the SOLO taxonomy and relate this to the type and number of annotations they made. The questions and annotations were classified and the relationship between question type, student performance and the tendency to annotate was explored.