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RESEARCH AND EVALUATION METHODS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION
"Too much of the research in computing education ignores the hundreds of years of education, cognitive science, and learning sciences research that have gone before us. If we want our research to have any value to the researchers that come after us, if we want to grow a longstanding field that contributes to the improvement of computing education, then we have to 'stand on the shoulders of giants,' as Newton put it, and stop erecting ant hills that provide too little thought." - Mark Guzdzial, Member of the ACM SIGCSE panel on Challenges to Computer Science Education Research.
Bridging the methodological gap between computer science education (CSE) research and behavioral science research is one way to promote the development of the CSE research framework. We believe that the appropriate research framework for the field is one that is informed by the authentic needs of computer science educators and informed by what is known about best practices in behavioral and learning sciences research.
The goal of this line of research is to refine and promote best practices in behavioral-science-oriented computer science education research. Our strategies include
- Doing design-based research on methods for planning and evaluating CSE programs,
- Conducting methodological reviews of computer science education research, and
- Providing recommendations and tutorials in areas where there is a discrepancy between current research practice and best research practice.
We hope that our research will increase the import/export between computer science education research and behavioral science research proper and, thereby, increase the quality of computing education for all.
Justus Randolph, firstname.lastname@cs.joensuu.fi