Learning computer science concepts with Scratch

ICER'10 - Proceedings of the International Computing Education Research Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 69-76

  Meerbaum Salant, Orni ^a   Armoni, Michal ^a   Ben Ari, Mordechai ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bloom's Taxonomy; Concurrency; Middle schools; Scratch; SOLO taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BLOOM'S TAXONOMY; CONCURRENCY; MIDDLE SCHOOL; SCRATCH; SOLO TAXONOMY;

BLOOMS (METAL); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; QUALITY CONTROL; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS; TAXONOMIES;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 77956275905     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1839594.1839607     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (31)

1. Anderson, L. W., Krathwohl, D. R., Airasian, P. W., Cruikshank, K. A., Mayer, R. E., Pintrich, P. R., Raths, R. and Wittrock, M. C. Eds. 2001. A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching and Assessing. A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Addison-Wesley Longman.
2. Bell, T., Witten, I.H., Fellows, M. 2005. Computer Science Unplugged. http://csunplugged.com/(last accessed 20 April 2010).
3. Berelson, B. 1952. Content Analysis in Communication Research. Free Press.
4. Biggs, J. B. and Collis, K. F. 1982. Evaluating the Quality of Learning: The SOLO Taxonomy (Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome). Academic Press.
5. Bloom, B. S., Mesia, B. B., and Krathwohl, D. R. 1964. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (2 volumes: The affective domain; The cognitive domain). David McKay.
6. Carter, L. 2006. Why students with an apparent aptitude for computer science don't choose to major in computer science. SIGCSE Bull. 38, 1, 27-31
7. Curzon, P. and McOwan, P. W. 2008. Engaging with computer science through magic shows. SIGCSE Bull. 40, 3, 179-183.
8. Dancik, G. and Kumar, A.N. 2003. A tutor for countercontrolled loop concepts and its evaluation. In Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference (Boulder, CO, November 05-08, 2003). Session T3C (no page numbers).
9. Dann, W., Cooper, S. and Pausch, R. 2009. Learning to Program with Alice, Second Edition. Pearson.
10. Fuller, U., Johnson, C. G., Ahoniemi, T., Cukierman, D., Hernán-Losada, I., Jackova, J., Lahtinen, E., Lewis, T. L., Thompson, D. M., Riedesel, C., and Thompson, E. 2007. Developing a computer science-specific learning taxonomy. SIGCSE Bull. 39, 4, 152-170.
11. Johnson, C. J. and Fuller, U. 2006. Is Bloom's taxonomy appropriate for computer Science? In Proceedings of the 6th Baltic Sea Conference on Computing Education Research: Koli Calling 2006 (Uppsala, Sweden, November 09-12, 2006). ACM, New York, NY, 120-123.
12. Johnson, R. B. and Onwuegbuzie, A. J. 2004. Mixed methods research: A research paradigm whose time has come. Educational Researcher, 33, 7, 14-26.
13. Kelleher, C., Pausch, R., and Kiesler, S. 2007. Storytelling Alice motivates middle school girls to learn computer programming. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, California, USA, April 28 - May 03, 2007). ACM, New York, NY, 1455-1464.
14. Kelleher, C. and Pausch, R. 2005. Lowering the barriers to programming: A taxonomy of programming environments and languages for novice programmers. ACM Comput. Surv. 37, 2, 83-137.
15. Krathwohl, D, R. 2002. A revision of Bloom's taxonomy: An overview. Theory into Practice 41, 4, 212-264.http://www.unco.edu/cetl/sir/stating- outcome/documents/Krathwohl.pdf (last accessed 20 April 2010).
16. Kuittinen, M, and Sajaniemi, J. 2004. Teaching roles of variables in elementary programming courses. SIGCSE Bull. 36, 3, 57-61.
17. Lambert, L. and Guiffre, H. 2009. Computer science outreach in an elementary school. J. Comput. Small Coll., 24, 3, 118-124.
18. Lister, R. and Leaney, J. 2003. Introductory programming, criterion-referencing and Bloom. SIGCSE Bull. 35, 1, 143-147.
19. Lister, R., Simon, B., Thompson, E., Whalley, J.L. and Prasad, C. 2006. Not seeing the forest for the trees: Novice programmers and the SOLO taxonomy. SIGCSE Bull. 38, 3, 118-122.
20. Malan, D. J. and Leitner, H. H. 2007. Scratch for budding computer scientists. SIGCSE Bull. 39, 1, 223-227.
21. Maloney, J., Peppler, K., Kafai, Y., Resnick, M., and Rusk, N. 2008. Programming by choice: Urban youth learning programming with Scratch. SIGCSE Bull. 40, 1, 367-371.
22. Moskal, B., Lurie, D. and Cooper, S. 2004. Evaluating the effectiveness of a new instructional approach. In Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (Norfolk, VA, March 03-07, 2004), ACM Press, New York, NY, 75-79.
23. Papert, S. and Harel, I. 1991. Constructionism. Ablex.
24. Resnick, M., Maloney, J. Monroy-Hernández, A., Rusk, N., Eastmond, E., Brennan, K., Millner, A., Rosenbaum, E., Silver, J., Silverman, B., and Kafai, Y. 2009. Scratch: Programming for all. Commun. ACM, 52, 11, 60-67.
25. Robins, A., Rountree, J., and Rountree, N. 2003. Learning and Teaching Programming: A Review and Discussion. Computer Science Education, 13, 2, 137-172.
26. Samurçay, R. 1989. The concept of variable in programming: its meaning and use in problem-solving by novice programmers. In E. Soloway and J. C. Spohrer (Eds.). Studying the Novice Programmer, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 161-178.
27. Taub, R., Ben-Ari, M., and Armoni, M. 2009. The effect of CS Unplugged on middle-school students' views of CS. SIGCSE Bull. 41, 3, 99-103.
28. Thompson, E., Luxton-Reilly, A., Whalley, J. L., Hu, M., and Robbins, P. 2008. Bloom's taxonomy for CS assessment. Proceedings of the Tenth Conference Australasian Computing Education (Wollongong, NSW, Australia, January 20-23, 2008), 155-161.
29. Whalley, J., Lister, R., Thompson, E., Clear, T., Robbins, P., and Prasad, C. 2006. An Australasian study of reading and comprehension skills in novice programmers, using the Bloom and SOLO taxonomies. In Proceedings of the Eighth Australasian Conference Computing Education (Hobart, Australia, January 16-19, 2006), 243-252.
30. Wolz, U., Leitner, H. H., Malan, D. J., and Maloney, J. 2009. Starting with Scratch in CS1. SIGCSE Bull. 41, 1, 2-3.
31. Wolz, U., Maloney, J., and Pulimood, S. M. 2008. 'Scratch' your way to introductory CS. SIGCSE Bull. 40, 1, 298-299.