Decoding Doodles: Novice Programmers and Their Annotations

Whalley, J., Prasad, C. and Kumar, P.K.A.

This paper reports on the annotations made by novice programming students on an exam script. We investigate the level of reasoning that the students achieve when answering a short answer question using the SOLO taxonomy and relate this to the type and number of annotations they made. The questions and annotations were classified and the relationship between question type, student performance and the tendency to annotate was explored.

Cite as: Whalley, J., Prasad, C. and Kumar, P.K.A. (2007). Decoding Doodles: Novice Programmers and Their Annotations. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds. ACS. 171-178.

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