Concrete examples of abstraction as manifested in students' transformative experiences

ICER'08 - Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on International Computing Education Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 125-135

  Moström, Jan Erik ^a   Boustedt, Jonas ^b   Eckerdal, Anna ^c   McCartney, Robert ^d   Sanders, Kate ^e   Thomas, Lynda ^f   Zander, Carol ^g  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Dept of Mathematics Natural and Computer Science ^*  (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d University of Connecticut   (United States)

^e RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE   (United States)

^f ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Learning theory; Threshold concepts; Transformation

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROGRAMMING THEORY; STUDENTS;

ABSTRACT CONCEPTS; ABSTRACTION; DATA ABSTRACTIONS; DESIGN PATTERNS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCES; LEARNING EXPERIENCES; LEARNING SITUATIONS; LEARNING THEORY; THRESHOLD CONCEPTS; TRANSFORMATION;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 59249083909     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1404520.1404533     Document Type: Conference Paper

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