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Research on Understanding of Programming Skills for Introductory Programming Education

Research Project

Project/Area Number 25540160
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Learning support system
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

SEKIYA Takayuki  東京大学, 情報基盤センター, 助教 (70323508)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) YAMAGUCHI Kazunori  東京大学, 総合文化研究科, 教授 (80158097)
Project Period (FY) 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,250,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥750,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Keywordsプログラミング教育 / 誤答分析 / トレーシング / プログラミング
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Novice programmers' understanding of conditional and loop constructs are often incomplete. They seem to understand a single conditional or single loop, but fail to understand the combination of them.
We propose a method for finding misconceptions underlying this failure. We first developed a tracing quiz set to locate the exact points at which students will fail. Second, we identified some misconceptions from experiments on five courses. Third, to use and validate these misconceptions, we developed an interactive test system which showed the correct answers to the students and requested them to describe their explanations.
The experiments showed that some misconceptions affected the overall performance of the students.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2015 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (2 results)

All 2013 Other

All Presentation (1 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Presentation] Tracing Quiz Set to Identify Novices’ Programming Misconceptions2013

    • Author(s)
      Takayuki Sekiya, Kazunori Yamaguchi
    • Organizer
      Koli Calling ’13
    • Place of Presentation
      Koli, Finland
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 情報基盤センター年報

    • URL

      http://www.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/annual/

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-07-25   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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