Contribution: This paper adds to the results of previous systematic literature reviews by
addressing a more contemporary context of introductory programming. It proposes a …

Formative assessment is considered to be helpful in students' learning support and teaching
design. Following Aufschnaiter's and Alonzo's framework, formative assessment practices of …

Data science has been growing in prominence across both academia and industry, but there
is still little formal consensus about how to teach it. Many people who currently teach data …

This working group asserts that Program Comprehension (ProgComp) plays a critical part in
the process of writing programs. For example, this paper is written from a basic draft that was …

Understanding students' misconceptions is important for effective teaching and assessment.
However, discovering such misconceptions manually can be time-consuming and laborious …

This paper reports on the preliminary results of an ongoing study examining the teaching of
new primary school topics based on Computational Thinking in New Zealand. We analyse …

The feedback given to novice programmers can be substantially improved by delivering
advice focused on learners' cognitive misconceptions contextualized to the instruction …

Current learning outcomes for introductory programming courses are relatively general,
specifying tasks such as designing, implementing, testing and debugging programs that use …

We present our experience in a Computer Science (CS) introductory course, where three
teaching practices were implemented and compared: lectured-based learning, problem …

We asked students to explain the structure and execution of their small programs after they
had submitted them to a programming exercise. These questions about learner's code …