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Solution Spaces

Kasto, N; Whalley, JL; Philpott, A; Whalley, D
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Abstract
This paper explores the idea of solution space in the context of novice programmers and code writing tasks. A definition for solution space is provided and an analysis of a series of code writing questions from a first year Java programming course’s practical programming tests is provided to measure the impact of solution space size on the difficulty of a code writing question. We found that as the solution space size increases so does the difficulty of the question and that despite relatively high solutions spaces we see a very limited set of these solutions as student responses. Finally we conclude with some conjectures about the possible causes for the trends that we have observed.
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Novice programmers; Code writing; Assessment; Task complexity
Date
January 20, 2014
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Proceeding ACE 2014 Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference - Volume 148, Pages 133-137.
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Conference Contribution
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Australian Computer Society, Inc.
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http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2667506&CFID=402744609&CFTOKEN=50852420
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Copyright © 2014, Australian Computer Society, Inc. This paper appeared at the Eighth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2014), Auckland New Zealand. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), Vol.148. Jacqueline Whalley and Daryl D’Souza, Eds. Reproduction for academic, not-for-profit purposes permitted provided this text is included.

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