'Explain in plain English' questions: Implications for teaching

SIGCSE'12 - Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 385-390

  Murphy, Laurie ^a   McCauley, Renée ^b   Fitzgerald, Sue ^c  

^a PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

^c METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

computer science education research; explain in plain English; mixed methods; qualitative research methods

Indexed keywords

BASIC CONCEPTS; CODE SEGMENTS; COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION RESEARCH; EXPLAIN IN PLAIN ENGLISH; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; MIXED METHOD; NOVICE PROGRAMMER; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS; WRITING CODES;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84858990381     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2157136.2157249     Document Type: Conference Paper

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