tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548613718636739636.post2396987995637194652..comments2024-03-22T07:16:32.743-04:00Comments on Paul Gestwicki's Blog: Classical Mechanics and Hot WheelsPaul Gestwickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00684898302302604274noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548613718636739636.post-10323023760655571502013-10-07T01:41:46.050-04:002013-10-07T01:41:46.050-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.madhuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03900861666283746133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548613718636739636.post-90742991603360816582013-05-12T11:12:33.725-04:002013-05-12T11:12:33.725-04:00Darn! One of these papers I just pointed out says ...Darn! One of these papers I just pointed out says that students who passively watch demonstrations of code get nothing more out of it than those who didn't see any demonstration. It appears students need to be engaged and answer questions like "what do you think will happen?" This is going to be a challenge for my on-line teaching - I'm going to need to remember to pause and ask questions during the videos I'm producing of the demos.Paul Buishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18173837094662661867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548613718636739636.post-7609248094285878632013-05-12T11:04:19.831-04:002013-05-12T11:04:19.831-04:00Note that Tew & Guizdial had a followup in SIG...Note that Tew & Guizdial had a followup in SIGCSE '11: "The FCS1: A Language Independent Assessment of CS1 Knowledge."Paul Buishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18173837094662661867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548613718636739636.post-66631157106430152902013-05-12T10:59:06.051-04:002013-05-12T10:59:06.051-04:00The SIGCSE '10 paper by Guizdial and his Ph.D....The SIGCSE '10 paper by Guizdial and his Ph.D. student didn't actually include the questions they were trying to use to replicate the FCI. Perhaps we could follow up with them to see if they have validated their results and would be willing to share. We might be able to help with the replication question.Paul Buishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18173837094662661867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548613718636739636.post-79672811440664070362013-05-11T20:53:47.397-04:002013-05-11T20:53:47.397-04:00I am familiar with the 2010 SIGCSE paper, though n...I am familiar with the 2010 SIGCSE paper, though not the others. None of them, however, have had the momentum or replication that the FCI has in physics education.<br /><br />In 222, I like to talk to my students about the impossibility of unlearning, to address why it's easy to read a book like Clean Code but hard to implement it. I didn't expect the phenomenon to hit me so suddenly at the Children's Museum, though!Paul Gestwickihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00684898302302604274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548613718636739636.post-64659733112391156622013-05-11T18:33:57.678-04:002013-05-11T18:33:57.678-04:00Some papers on programmer misconceptions:
http://d...Some papers on programmer misconceptions:<br />http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2401799, a master's thesis.<br /><br />http://www.academia.edu/3385285/Identifying_student_misconceptions_of_programming<br /><br />http://www.third-bit.com/educate/index.php?title=What's_So_Hard_About_Learning_to_Program%3F (contains references to more other papers on misconceptions).<br /><br />The interesting thing is that misconceptions appear to be resilient. That is, when students are shown that their mental model is incorrect, the incorrect mental model persists despite the student's being presented with evidence that it is incorrect.Paul Buishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18173837094662661867noreply@blogger.com