Talking at cross purposes - Perceived learning barriers by students and teachers in programming education

Norbert Dorn, Marc Berges, Dino Capovilla, Peter Hubwieser

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Abstract

The knowledge on freshmen's problems and learning barriers in programming can help the instructors to adapt their teaching and to provide necessary assistance. This paper presents the results of two surveys conducted on secondary school teachers and computer science first-year students even before their first lecture. In total, we interviewed 61 teachers and 61 students with an open-ended questionnaire resulting in a qualitative study of the answers. The goal of the investigation is to find out the perceptions of learning barriers related to programming education. Our results indicate differences as well as commonalities in both perspectives given by teachers and students.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 13th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, WiPSCE 2018
EditorsQuintin Cutts, Andreas Muhling
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)9781450365888
DOIs
StatePublished - 4 Oct 2018
Event13th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, WiPSCE 2018 - Potsdam, Germany
Duration: 4 Oct 20186 Oct 2018

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference13th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, WiPSCE 2018
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityPotsdam
Period4/10/186/10/18

Keywords

  • Learning barriers
  • Professional development
  • Programming education

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