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What's in a Publication: The Bleeding Edge of Computing

Education Research

Arnold Pears

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Presentation

Defining CER

Views and discourse

Towards a common understanding?

Valuing CER

What to we value?

How and why do we value it?

Implications?

Trends and Stratification

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What is Comp. Ed. Research?

Who is it who defines CER?

Can the disciplinary discourse help us?

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Goldweber et al. [1]

Four disparate views CER is:

Practitioner's experiences (Goldweber) Related to Education (Clarke)

Diversity of endeavour (Pears)

Noticing phenomena (Fincher)

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Valuing the Literature

How do we discern the key aspects of a contribution?

Taxonomies are one approach

Separate and illustrate diversity based on key characteristics

Provide a mechanism for evaluation and interpretation of contributions

Stimulate and guide a structured meta-

discourse

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Fincher and Petre [2]

Classification based on investigative focus

1. Student understanding

2. Animation, visualization and simulation 3. Teaching methods

4. Assessment

5. Educational technology

6. Transferring professional practice into the classroom 7. Incorporating new developments and new technologies

8. Transferring from campus-based teaching to distance education 9. Recruitment and retention

10. Construction of the discipline

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Valentine [3]

CER as type of endeavour

Marco Polo: Focus on describing experiences and observations related to applying a method, tool, or language in a specific

institution or course.

Tools: Focus on new software and/or hardware for assisting

learning. Typical examples include visualization and assessment tools, as well as learning environments.

Experimental: A ”scientific” approach to evaluating the effect of

”treatments” on students.

Nifty: Novel ideas for teaching or supporting learning in a specific (usually small) context.

Philosophy: Addressing a general issue in computing education

intending to stimulate further debate.

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Exploring ”contribution” [4]

Classify on two dimensions related to

”contribution to the field”.

Focus – the intent behind the investigation Nature – what type of contribution is made

What values might we define along these

dimensions?

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Investigative Focus

A)Teaching, Learning and Assessment B) Educational Settings

C) Problems and Solutions

D) Discipline of CER

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Nature

Influential – widely recognised as significant Seminal – helps to define a new area or topic

Synthesis – analyses/syntheses in areas of CER

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A Classification

Nature

Focus Influential Seminal Synthesis Teach/learn/assess

Institution

Problem

CER

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The Need for a Literary Corpus

Illustrates the application of a set of accepted values

Provides an annotated general reading resource for people entering the field of CER

Engenders discussion on the merits of individual publications

Is a vital stage towards establishing the

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Research Method and CER

CER as an emerging discipline has no implicitly accepted research tradition

One has a concommittantly increased responsibility for full disclosure both in research approach and analysis

methodology

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Who does the research?

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What comprises a study?

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Relevance and Validity

What are appropriate approaches to conducting CER studies then?

Lister[8], mixed methods

Ben-Ari et al.[9], action research, cognitive theory, phenomenography, socio-cultural

Can we formulate a more general

framework?

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Designing Investigations

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Trends

Qualitative methods

Increasing acceptance Increasing activity

PhiCER I and II

Workshops on qualitative methods

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Stratification

ACM

SIGCSE, ITiCSE, ICER

IEEE

FIE

ASEE conferences National

Koli Calling, ACE, NCCAQ

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Choosing a forum

Practice Theory

Rich

SIGCSE

Koli ICER ITiCSE

FIE

ACE

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So what is our mission?

as individuals?

as a community?

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References

[1]M. Goldweber, M. Clark, S. Fincher, and A. Pears. The relationship between CS education research and the SIGCSE community. In ITiCSE ’04: Proceedings of the 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, pages 228–229, New York, NY, USA, 2004. ACM Press [2]S. Fincher and M. Petre. Computer Science Education Research. Routledge Falmer, January 2004 [3]D. W. Valentine. CS educational research: a meta-analysis of SIGCSE technical symposium proceedings. In SIGCSE ’04: Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pages 255–259, New York, NY, USA, 2004.

ACM Press.

[4]Sajaniemi J., Ben-Ari M., Byckling P., Gerdt P., Kulikova Y. (2006) Roles of Variables in Three Programming Paradigms. Computer Science Education 16(4), 261-279 [5]Constructing a Core Literature for Computing Education Research. Arnold Pears, Stephen Seidman, Crystal Eney, PŠivi Kinnunen, and Lauri Malmi. In volume 37, issue 4 of ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Association for Computing Machinery Press, pp 152-161, 2005.

[6]Qualitative Research Projects in Computing Education Research: An Overview..

Anders Berglund, Mats Daniels, and Arnold Pears. In volume 28, issue 5 of Australian

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References

[8] Lister, R. 2005. Mixed methods: positivists are from Mars, constructivists are from Venus.

SIGCSE Bull. 37, 4 (Dec. 2005), 18-19. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1113847.1113857 [9] Ben-Ari, M., Berglund, A., Booth, S., and Holmboe, C. 2004. What do we mean by

theoretically sound research in computer science education?. In Proceedings of the 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (Leeds, United Kingdom, June 28 - 30, 2004). ITiCSE '04. ACM Press, New York, NY, 230-231. DOI=

http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1007996.1008059

[10]Qualitative Research Projects in Computing Education Research: An Overview..

Anders Berglund, Mats Daniels, and Arnold Pears. In volume 28, issue 5 of Australian Computer Science Communications, pp 25 - 34, 2006.

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Conferences

Axis 1= Practice – Theory

Axis 2= Superficial – Rich

Colour = exclusivity?

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