Ducky Thesis Proposal Notes

Problem Statement

@@@ A clear statement of the problem and the research question.

Literature Review

@@@ A presentation of the relevant literature and the theoretical framework.

Proposed data-gathering methods

@@@ A description of the research design and instruments and data gathering methods.

Proposed analysis methods

@@@ An outline of the plan for data analysis and the rationale for the level and method chosen, applicable statistical tests and computer programs.

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Unsorted junk

Need academic ref

• reference to Stanley Eisenstat yale cs 323 time vs. outcome studies

Interesting references for me to chase down

• Cross, E. The behavioral styles of computer programmers. in Proc 8th Annual SIGCPR Conference. 1970. Maryland, WA, USA.

• Mayer, D.B. and A.W. Stalnaker. Selection and Evaluation of Computer Personnel – the Research History of SIG/CPR. in Proc 1968 23rd ACM National Conference,. 1968. Las Vegas, NV, USA.

• Michael McCracken, Vicki Almstrum, Danny Diaz, Mark Guzdial, Dianne Hagan, Yifat Ben- David Kolikant, Cary Laxer, Lynda Thomas, Ian Utting, and Tadeusz Wilusz. A multinational, multi-institutional study of assessment of programming skills of first-year CS students. In Working group reports from ITiCSE on Innovation and technology in computer science education, Canterbury, UK, 2001. ACM Press.

• B Adelson and E Soloway. The role of domain experience in software design. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 11(November):1351–1360, 1985.
• Jeffrey Bonar and Elliot Soloway. Uncovering principles of novice programming. In 10th ACM POPL, pages 10–13, 1983.

and other references from This Camel Has Two Humps and Testing Programming Aptitude

follow-on to the camel