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TPiPE - Theory and Practice in Programming Education

We study lab-based teaching and learning of computer programming at upper
secondary schools and in higher education with a specific focus on the interplay
between learning of theory and learning of practice. The aim for the project is to gain insights about what is required in order that students' learning of practice and learning of theory during lab sessions can support each other mutually. Our research approach is phenomenography and variation theory, where we use the intended object of learning, the enacted object of learning, and the lived object of learning as our analytical tools. The project has collected data from students, from teachers, and the lab instructions used in the lab.

Staff

Principle investigator:
Anna Eckerdal

Researchers:
Anders Berglund
Michael Thuné
Lennart Rolandsson (Dept of Education)
Inga-Britt Skogh (KTH)

Selected publications

Learning practice and theory in programming education: Students’ lived experience. Anders Berglund and Anna Eckerdal. In Proc. 3rd International Conference on Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering, pp 180-186, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, 2015. (DOI, fulltext:preprint).

Learning to program: A discussion on the interplay of theory and practice. Anders Berglund and Anna Eckerdal. In Proc. 1st Al Baha University and Uppsala University Symposium on Quality in Computing Education, volume 2015-007 of Technical report / Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, pp 16-18, 2015. (Proceedings).

Relating theory and practice in laboratory work: a variation theoretical study. Anna Eckerdal. In Studies in Higher Education, volume 40, pp 867-880, 2015. (DOI).

Analysing the enacted object of learning in lab assignments in programming education. Anna Eckerdal and Michael Thuné. In Proc. 1st International Conference on Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering, pp 208-211, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, 2013. (DOI, fulltext:postprint).