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The abstraction transition taxonomy: developing desired learning outcomes through the lens of situated cognition

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Cutts, Quintin Esper, Sarah Simon, Beth Foster, Stephen R. Fecho, Marlena
Abstract	We report on a post-hoc analysis of introductory programming lecture materials. The purpose of this analysis is to identify what knowledge and skills we are asking students to acquire, as situated in the activity, tools, and culture of what programmers do and how they think. The specific materials analyzed are the 133 Peer Instruction questions used in lecture to support cognitive apprenticeship -- honoring the situated nature of knowledge. We propose an Abstraction Transition Taxonomy for classifying the kinds of knowing and practices we engage students in as we seek to apprentice them into the programming world. We find students are asked to answer questions expressed using three levels of abstraction: English, CS Speak, and Code. Moreover, many questions involve asking students to transition between levels of abstraction within the context of a computational problem. Finally, by applying our taxonomy in classifying a range of introductory programming exams, we find that summative assessments (including our own) tend to emphasize a small range of the skills fostered in students during the formative/apprenticeship phase.
Starting Page	63
Ending Page	70
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450316040
DOI	10.1145/2361276.2361290
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2012-09-09
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Cs1 Cs0 Cs2 Taxonomy Cognitive apprenticeship Situated cognition Deliberate practice
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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