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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Categorizing Student Software Designs: Methods, Results, and Implications
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Eckerdal, Anna; McCartney, Robert; Mostrom, Jan Erik; Ratcliffe, Mark; Zander, Carol – Computer Science Education, 2006
This paper examines the problem of studying and comparing student software designs. We propose semantic categorization as a way to organize widely varying data items. We describe how this was used to organize a particular multi-national, multi-institutional dataset, and present the results of this analysis: most students are unable to effectively…
Descriptors: Semantics, Computer Software, Classification, Computer System Design
What Do CS Students Try to Learn? Insights from a Distributed, Project-Based Course in Computer Systems
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Berglund, Anders; Eckerdal, Anna – Computer Science Education, 2006
This paper explores what students taking an international project-based course in computer systems strive to learn. Through empirical, phenomenographic work we have identified three different motives that the students strive for: academic achievement; project and team working capacity; and social competence. What a student strives to learn largely…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Student Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries, Phenomenology