What do beginning students know, and what can they do?
Tzu-Yi Chen, Gary Lewandowski, Robert McCartney, Kate Sanders, Beth S. Simon · ACM SIGCSE Bulletin · 2006
We are studying what students know about computer science-related topics before they take formal coursework at the university level. Preliminary results suggest that entering students have a fairly sophisticated understanding of algorithms. We are exploring other central computing topics for similar shared commonsense understanding.