An Australasian study of reading and comprehension skills in novice programmers, using the bloom and SOLO taxonomies

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 52, Issue , 2006, Pages 243-252

  Whalley, Jacqueline L ^a   Lister, Raymond ^b   Thompson, Errol ^c   Clear, Tony ^a   Robbins, Phil ^a   Ajith Kumar, P K ^d   Prasad, Christine ^e  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d TOI OHOMAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^e UNITEC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bloom's taxonomy; Multi institutional; Novice programming; SOLO

Indexed keywords

BLOOM'S TAXONOMY; COGNITIVE LEVELS; MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL; NOVICE PROGRAMMER; NOVICE PROGRAMMING; SOLO; STUDENT PERFORMANCE;

BLOOMS (METAL); TAXONOMIES;

EDUCATION;

EID: 80052052091     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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