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2015
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Repository of Wisdom: Automated Support for Composing Programming Exams
This paper presents a macro-level view around exam composition. While previous work known as BABELnot (Lister et. al. 2012 [1]) developed a micro-level classification scheme to co...
Keith Foster, Daryl J. D'Souza, Margaret Hamilton,...
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2015
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Comparative Study on Programmable Robots as Programming Educational Tools
Computational Thinking skills are basic and important to manipulate computers. Currently, several systems exist to provide an effective way to learn programming that use computer...
Shohei Yamazaki, Kazunori Sakamoto, Kiyoshi Honda,...
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2015
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Why Don't More ICT Students Do PhDs?
Compared to many other disciplines, ICT has relatively few students choosing to continue into doctoral studies. We have explored some of the perceived barriers to undertaking doct...
Cally Guerin, Asangi Jayatilaka, Paul R. Calder, A...
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2015
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Mired in the Web: Vignettes from Charlotte and Other Novice Programmers
1 Ahadi and Lister (2013) found that many of their introductory programming students had fallen behind as early as week 3 of semester, and those students often then stayed behind. ...
Donna Teague, Raymond Lister, Alireza Ahadi
ACE
2015
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Computational Thinking, the Notional Machine, Pre-service Teachers, and Research Opportunities
There is general consensus regarding the urgent and pressing need to develop school students' computational thinking abilities, and to help school teachers develop computatio...
Matt Bower, Katrina Falkner
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2015
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Understanding the Teaching Context of First Year ICT Education in Australia
This paper reports on an investigation of the teaching context of first-year Information and Communications Technology (ICT) courses at Australian universities and the influences ...
Matthew Butler, Judy Sheard, Michael Morgan, Katri...
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2015
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Student Perceptions of Flipped Learning
Flipped learning has been the subject of significant hype and attention but descriptions of the development and the evaluation of this pedagogical model are lacking. Flipped lear...
David Murray, Terry Koziniec, Tanya J. McGill
ACE
2015
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Teaching in First-Year ICT Education in Australia: Research and Practice
This paper details current research and teaching practice for first-year Information and Communications Technology (ICT) students at Australian universities. The project aims to r...
Michael Morgan, Judy Sheard, Matthew Butler, Katri...
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2015
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Considerations in Automated Marking
With large classes and high demands on the time of teaching academics, (as well as the need to keep marking budgets under control) evaluating the functional correctness of program...
Joel Fenwick
ACE
2014
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The Australian Digital Technologies Curriculum: Challenge and Opportunity
There is a call for change in the treatment of ICT curriculum in our schools driven by the relatively recent acknowledgement of the growing importance of ICT in industry and socie...
Katrina Falkner, Rebecca Vivian, Nick Falkner