TY - GEN
T1 - Defining the competence of abstract thinking and evaluating CS-students' level of abstraction
AU - Zehetmeier, Daniela
AU - Böttcher, Axel
AU - Brüggemann-Klein, Anne
AU - Thurner, Veronika
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Although it is commonly agreed that the competence of abstraction and abstract thinking is one of the most important competences in Computer Science, only a few of these sources define this competence and its processes in a precise manner. Furthermore there is a lack of instruments to test the competence of abstract thinking and to integrate it into teaching. This work will start to close the gap concerning the competence of abstract thinking by deriving a theoretical description of the competence construct of abstract thinking, focusing on a Computer Science perspective. Furthermore, we will present a coding manual based on the model, which can be used to evaluate student assignments. This coding manual is applied to examples of our teaching practice in order to demonstrate its validity.
AB - Although it is commonly agreed that the competence of abstraction and abstract thinking is one of the most important competences in Computer Science, only a few of these sources define this competence and its processes in a precise manner. Furthermore there is a lack of instruments to test the competence of abstract thinking and to integrate it into teaching. This work will start to close the gap concerning the competence of abstract thinking by deriving a theoretical description of the competence construct of abstract thinking, focusing on a Computer Science perspective. Furthermore, we will present a coding manual based on the model, which can be used to evaluate student assignments. This coding manual is applied to examples of our teaching practice in order to demonstrate its validity.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85088365192
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 7642
EP - 7651
BT - Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2019
A2 - Bui, Tung X.
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 52nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2019
Y2 - 8 January 2019 through 11 January 2019
ER -