Concept specification maps - Displaying content structures

Marc Berges, Peter Hubwieser

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Abstract

In introductory courses there are topics with a huge amount of concepts and interdependencies between them. Especially in the course materials the relevant definitions or specifications are widely spread. This paper presents a semiautomatic way of text analysis to display the structure of concepts in literature such as textbooks. Therefore we searched for text paragraphs that contain a definition or specification of a given concept. From the results we built a graphical representation, containing "definition-nodes" that show the logical structure of those concepts. We call it a Concept Specification Map. Furthermore we show an application of the method on five textbooks of introductory courses into object-oriented programming. We present the results of the analysis and draw some conclusions on their influence regarding introductory courses.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationITiCSE 2013 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Pages291-296
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event18th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2013 - Canterbury, United Kingdom
Duration: 1 Jul 20133 Jul 2013

Publication series

NameAnnual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE
ISSN (Print)1942-647X

Conference

Conference18th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityCanterbury
Period1/07/133/07/13

Keywords

  • CS1
  • Concept structures
  • Graphical representation
  • Semi-automatic analysis
  • Textbooks

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