A taxonomic study of novice programming summative assessment
Shuhaida Mohamed Shuhidan, Margaret Hamilton, Daryl D’Souza · 2009
Learning to program is difficult, a situation that is largely responsible for high attrition rates in Computer Science schools. Novice programmers struggle to grasp an early understanding of programming, which can lead to frustration and eventually surrender. The problem has generated interest in a range of enquiries, and has given impetus to the need for a teaching-research nexus towards a better understanding of novice programming problems. We continue the trend in this paper and report on a study we have conducted of novice programmers ’ efforts in summative assessment. Our study involves multiplechoice questions and coding question drawn from a programming examination. We analyse the answers