Abstract:
There has been a recent proliferation of multinational,
multi-institutional computer science education
research exploring issues surrounding novice computer
science student understanding. The large numbers of
students studied in these efforts and their breadth in terms
of student background (both technically and culturally)
has led to significant interest in the work. In this paper,
we summarize each study, identifying the populations
studied, the types of data collected, the analyses performed
and review the primary results. We also report on current
ongoing work related to and derived from these efforts.
