Collaborative Research: Commonsense Computing: What students know before we teach

计算机科学（31）这个合作项目，涉及六个机构，是确定预先存在的知识，学生有关于计算机科学的主题之前，他们开始在计算的第一门课程。 识别这些先入之见可以用来通知和改造介绍计算机科学教学，帮助学生学习新的概念，他们的先入之见的上下文中。 要探讨的主题包括：条件表达式，搜索，用户界面设计和评估，并发。

Computer Science (31)This collaborative project, involving six institutions, is identifying the preexisting knowledge students have about computer science topics prior to their starting a first course in computing. Identifying these preconceptions can be used to inform and transform introductory computer science instruction by helping students to learn new concepts within the contexts of their preconceptions. Topics to be explored include: conditional expressions, search, user-interface design and evaluation, and concurrency.