briandk / icer-2016-rebecca-manuscript

My manuscript submission for ICER 2016 that analyzes Rebecca's code and snapshots
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Add one or more graphics to the top of the paper #4

Open briandk opened 7 years ago

briandk commented 7 years ago

Or even just a billeted list of points:

  1. We don't know enough about what happens in early stage software design.
  2. And what little we do know has focused on experts: professional software engineers working in industry. Which is a problem because:
  3. If there's a path of development for novices to become expert software designers, we haven't fully characterized the end points.
  4. What we know about novices is far less than what little we know about experts. We have almost no data comparable to those in Petre's book to characterize how novices design software.
briandk commented 7 years ago

This paper tries to redress that balance by:

  1. Focusing on novices designing software,
  2. Engaging in the kind of data collection that would allow us to compare practices across contexts (see Hall and Stevens on work v. school)
  3. Revealing how if we just study the output of a students' summarize assignment, we miss consequential opportunities for formative assessment and instructional intervention.
briandk commented 7 years ago

Include a table of some of the other participants to illustrate the dimensional spanning that arose:

briandk commented 7 years ago

Look into fieldwork/anthropology references that document theme emergence and spanning a space