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Automated assessment is commonly used across the spectrum of computing courses offered by Tertiary institutions. Such assessment is frequently intended to address the scalability of feedback that is essential for learning, and assessment for ...

Previous research has shown that even though many students are aware of overarching problems with concurrency, they are less successful in addressing any issues they have found. This implies that the students have not yet developed a mental model that ...

Digital Technologies (DT) achievement standards including computer science and programming were introduced as elective subjects in New Zealand’s high schools more than 10 years ago. However, many challenges still exist with regards to student ...

To introduce middle school students to key concepts in image recognition, we created an interactive web application that performs sketch recognition and an afterschool curriculum for its use. Our app, called DoodleIt, was inspired by Google’s Quick, ...

Students need the ability to reason about the behavior of programs when working with advanced concepts like concurrency and abstraction. To achieve this, students require core programming skills that allow them to trace and predict the outcome of a ...

Students sometimes manage to produce functionally correct program code while having a fragile understanding of the related learning goals. Such unproductive success could be intercepted by an educator who asks questions that target the structure and ...

Problem-solving is a central activity to computing, and thus a key skill that novices develop when learning programming. While most programming-related concepts are taught explicitly in introductory courses, it is common for problem-solving to be taught ...

Differences between students have always been apparent in education. There have been long-standing concerns with diversity in subjects, particularly the gender divide between students. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (commonly known as ...

In 2017, all Australian universities committed to ensuring all students engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural content. Information and communication technology (ICT) curricula across Australia have been slow to engage in the ...

Sense of belonging, or belongingness, is an important factor in a student’s academic life as it is associated with factors such as motivation and persistence, in addition to mental health and well-being. Belongingness has been shown to be correlated ...

The introduction of OpenAI Codex sparked a surge of interest in the impact of generative AI models on computing education practices. Codex is also the underlying model for GitHub Copilot, a plugin which makes AI-generated code accessible to students ...

Good modularity is seen as an important goal in software design. Achieving this goal is claimed to improve, among other things, the understandability and modifiability of a design. Yet, when teaching software design, we see that students limit the amount ...

Opportunities for students at all age levels to learn programming are growing and this has led to increased enrolments both online and in the classroom. As the range of prior experiences within a cohort becomes more diverse, it poses a challenge for ...

Learnersourcing is an emerging phenomenon in computing education research and practice. In learnersourcing, a crowd of students participates in the creation of course resources such as exercises, written materials, educational videos, and so on. In ...