BDSI: A Validated Concept Inventory For Basic Data Structures
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2019
Published In
Proceedings Of The 2019 ACM Conference On International Computing Education Research
Abstract
A Concept Inventory (CI) is a validated assessment to measure student conceptual understanding of a particular topic. This work presents a CI for Basic Data Structures (BDSI) and the process by which the CI was designed and validated. We discuss: 1) the collection of faculty opinions from diverse institutions on what belongs on the instrument, 2) a series of interviews with students to identify their conceptions and misconceptions of the content, 3) an iterative design process of developing draft questions, conducting interviews with students to ensure the questions on the instrument are interpreted properly, and collecting faculty feedback on the questions themselves, and 4) a statistical evaluation of final versions of the instrument to ensure its internal validity. We also provide initial results from pilot runs of the CI.
Published By
Association For Computing Machinery
Conference
ICER '19: International Computing Education Research Conference
Conference Dates
August 12-14, 2019
Conference Location
Toronto, Canada
Recommended Citation
L. Porter, D. Zingaro, S. N. Liao, C. Taylor, Kevin Webb, C. Lee, and M. Clancy.
(2019).
"BDSI: A Validated Concept Inventory For Basic Data Structures".
Proceedings Of The 2019 ACM Conference On International Computing Education Research.
111-119.
DOI: 10.1145/3291279.3339404
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-comp-sci/103