Theoretical underpinnings of computing education research: what is the evidence?
Theoretical underpinnings of computing education research: what is the evidence?
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计算机教育研究的理论基础：证据是什么？
DOI：
10.1145/2632320.2632358
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2014
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通讯作者：
Ahmad Taherkhani
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L. Malmi;Judithe Sheard;Simon;R. Bednarik;J. Helminen;P. Kinnunen;A. Korhonen;Niko Myller;Juha Sorva;Ahmad Taherkhani
我们分析计算教育研究（CER）文献，以发现最近的计算教育研究建立在哪些理论、概念模型和框架之上。这使人们对CER的理论基础有了广泛的了解，这对该领域的研究人员很有用，并有可能帮助CER发展成为一个独立的研究领域。
We analyze the Computing Education Research (CER) literature to discover what theories, conceptual models and frameworks recent CER builds on. This gives rise to a broad understanding of the theoretical basis of CER that is useful for researchers working in that area, and has the potential to help CER develop its own identity as an independent field of study.
Our analysis takes in seven years of publications (2005-2011, 308 papers) in three venues that publish long research papers in computing education: the journals ACM Transactions of Computing Education (TOCE) and Computer Science Education (CSEd), and the conference International Computing Education Research Workshop (ICER). We looked at the theoretical background works that are used or extended in the papers, not just referred to when describing related work. These background works include theories, conceptual models and frameworks. For each background work we tried to identify the discipline from which it originates, to gain an understanding of how CER relates to its neighboring fields. We also identified theoretical works originating within CER itself, showing that the field is building on its own theoretical works.
Our main findings are that there is a great richness of work on which recent CER papers build; there are no prevailing theoretical or technical works that are broadly applied across CER; about half the analyzed papers build on no previous theoretical work, but a considerable share of these are building their own theoretical constructions. We discuss the significance of these findings for the whole field and conclude with some recommendations.