Identifying students’ misconceptions in data structures and algorithms

• Autores: Tuncay Aydogan, Ozlem Can
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 26, no. 6, 2010, págs. 1464-1471
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) is one of the core courses of Computer Science (CS) education. The course has severalabstract concepts. In this study, misconceptions made by students relating to the Lists, also known as Linked Lists (LL), have beenidentified. The main and sub-problems were first identified, and then a three-tier multiple-choice conceptual understanding diagnostictest (or three-tier test) was prepared and administered to 291 students. The results were analysed and information about 14misconceptions were obtained.