Dennis Bouvier

TL;DR: This ITiCSE working group report presents the most recent step in the BRACElet project, which includes replication of earlier analysis using a far broader pool of naturally occurring data, refinement of the SOLO taxonomy in code-explaining questions, extension of the taxonomy to code-writing questions, and exploration of a further theoretical basis for work that until now has been primarily empirical.

TL;DR: A comprehensive, historical and state-of-the-art report on research in the area, synthesise and present the existing evidence for these messages including the difficulties they present and their effectiveness, and makes the bibtex file of the 300+ reference corpus publicly available.

TL;DR: A study to review and revisit the influential ITiCSE 2001 McCracken working group that reported on novice programmers' ability to solve a specified programming problem found a significant correlation between students' performance in the practical task and the survey, and a significant effect on performance inThe practical task attributable to the use of the test harness.

TL;DR: The results indicate that with increases in education, students use fewer textual design notations and more graphical and standardizedNotations and that they become more aware of ambiguous problem specifications, yet increased educational attainment has little effect on students' valuation of key design characteris- tics.

TL;DR: Through common measurements of student perceptions, this work provides evidence that introductory computing instructors can successfully implement PI in their classrooms and finds encouraging minimum and average levels of success as measured through student valuation of PI for their learning.