Characterizing research in computing education: A preliminary analysis of the literature

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3-11

  Malmi, Lauri ^a   Sheard, Judy ^b   Simon, ^c   Bednarik, Roman ^d   Helminen, Juha ^a   Korhonen, Ari ^a   Myller, Niko ^d   Sorva, Juha ^a   Taherkhani, Ahmad ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Classifying publications; Computing education; Research methods

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; CLASSIFYING PUBLICATIONS; COMPUTING EDUCATION; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; RESEARCH METHODS; RESEARCH PAPERS;

EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

RESEARCH;

EID: 77956279727     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1839594.1839597     Document Type: Conference Paper

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