ERIC Number: EJ827895
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Sep
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-0899-3408
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A Classification of Recent Australasian Computing Education Publications
Computer Science Education, v17 n3 p155-169 Sep 2007
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. (Contains 5 figures and 5 tables.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computers, Classification, Computer Science Education, Educational Research, Academic Discourse, Faculty Publishing, Writing for Publication, Theory Practice Relationship, Meta Analysis
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia; New Zealand
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