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A Taxonomic Study of Novice Programming Summative Assessment
Shuhidan, S., Hamilton, M. and D'Souza, D.
Learning to program is difficult, a situation that is
largely responsible for high attrition rates in Computer
Science schools. Novice programmers struggle
to grasp an early understanding of programming,
which can lead to frustration and eventually surrender.
The problem has generated interest in a range
of enquiries, and has given impetus to the need for
a teaching-research nexus towards a better understanding
of novice programming problems. We continue
the trend in this paper and report on a study
we have conducted of novice programmers' efforts in
summative assessment. Our study involves multiplechoice
questions and coding question drawn from a
programming examination. We analyse the answers
provided by novices to final examination questions,
and attempt to understand why students make such
errors. We aim to categorise and classify the questions
in the context of two well-known learning taxonomies:
Bloom's Taxonomy and the SOLO Taxonomy.
Cite as: Shuhidan, S., Hamilton, M. and D'Souza, D. (2009). A Taxonomic Study of Novice Programming Summative Assessment. In Proc. Eleventh Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2009), Wellington, New Zealand. CRPIT, 95. Hamilton, M. and Clear, T., Eds. ACS. 147-156.
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