An Australasian Study of Reading and Comprehension Skills in Novice Programmers, Using the Bloom and SOLO Taxonomies
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Whalley, J
Lister, R
Thompson, E
Clear, Tony
Robbins, P
Kumar, PKA
Prasad, C
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Australian Computer Society
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In this paper we report on a multi-institutional 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.Description
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Bloom’s Taxonomy; SOLO; Novice programming; Multi-institutional