Studying misconceptions, researchers often face a choice between getting insight into students’ thinking (using free text interviews) and the number of processed answers (which affects the study’s validity). In this poster, we suppose a technique of analysis students’ answers at free-text questions requiring interpreting program trace lines to study misconceptions of control flow statements. The technique allows labeling free-text answers for quantitative study and processing them more efficiently than during unstructured interviews while still getting free expressions of students’ thoughts.
Zhen Wu Computer Science Department, University of Pittsburgh, Amanda Buddemeyer Learning Research & Development Center and School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh, Erin Walker University of Pittsburgh, Angela Stewart Computer Science Department, University of Pittsburgh
Xiaoxue Du MIT Media Lab, Robert Parks Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Selim Tezel Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jeff Freilich Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nicole Pang Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hal Abelson Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cynthia Breazeal Massachusetts Institute of Technology
