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Title
A classification of recent Australasian computing education publications
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Simon
Institution
The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Science & Information Technology, School of Design Communication and Information Technology
Description
A new classification system for computing education papers is presented and applied to every computing education paper published between January 2004 and January 2007 at the two premier computing education conferences in Australia and New Zealand. We find that while simple reports outnumber other types of paper, a healthy proportion of papers address and answer a research question. We find that more papers deal with programming courses than with other courses, and that more than half of all publications are situated in single subjects. To the extent that differing circumstances permit, we compare our results with those of an earlier study of the SIGCSE conference, and find that the Australasian publications include fewer simple reports and more papers describing analysis and experiment. We note a reasonable number of publications on multi-institutional work, which we interpret as evidence of a sense of computing education community within Australia and New Zealand.
Relation
Computer Science Education Vol. 17, Issue 3, p. 155 - 169
Publisher Link
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08993400701538021
Date
2007
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Keyword(s)
computing education;  classification;  conference publications;  Australia;  New Zealand
Resource Type
journal article
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/926801
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ISSN:0899-3408
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"Computer Science Education"
 
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