Reductive thinking in undergraduate CS courses

Michal Armoni, Judith Gal-Ezer, Orit Hazzan

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Abstract

This paper describes research on the perception of undergraduate students of the concept of reduction. Specifically, based on an analysis of students' answers to questions addressing different CS topics, we present several findings regarding the ways in which undergraduate students conceive of and apply reduction. In addition to the research description and results, the paper discusses the role of reduction in CS and suggests several teaching applications.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationITiCSE06 - Proceedings of the 11th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Pages133-137
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
EventITiCSE06: 11th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education - Bologna, Italy
Duration: 26 Jun 200628 Jun 2006

Publication series

NameITiCSE06 - Proceedings of the 11th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Volume2006

Conference

ConferenceITiCSE06: 11th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityBologna
Period26/06/0628/06/06

Keywords

  • Algorithms
  • Computational models
  • Reduction
  • Reductive thinking

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