Salient Elements in Novice Solutions to Code Writing Problems
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Whalley, JL
Clear, Tony
Robbins, P
Thompson, E
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Australian Computer Society
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This paper presents an approach to the evaluation of novice programmers' solutions to code writing problems. The first step was the development a framework comprised of the salient elements, or programming constructs, used in a set of student solutions to three typical code writing assessment problems. This framework was then refined to provide a code quality factor framework that was compared with an analysis using the SOLO taxonomy. We found that combining our framework with the SOLO taxonomy helped to define the SOLO categories and provided an improved approach to applying the principles of SOLO to code writing problems.
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SOLO taxonomy, Novice programmers, Assessment
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In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference-Volume 114 (pp. 37-46). Australian Computer Society, Inc..
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Copyright © 2011, Australian Computer Society, Inc. This paper appeared at the 13th Australasian Computer Education Conference (ACE 2011), Perth, Australia. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), Vol. 114. J. Hamer and M. de Raadt, Eds. Reproduction for academic, not-for profit purposes permitted provided this text is included.