Sally Fincher and CSEd
A blog post of what Sally Fincher has meant to the CSEd research community, I’m not is a position to judge what she has meant to CSEd Research in general but I can say that I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing right now if it hadn’t been for the Scaffolding Project.
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I’m currently in the process of reading CS Education papers and I’m getting quite fed up with papers that basically says “Students have a problem understanding X” – “It’s probably because of Y” – “Let’s build of software tool to teach them X” And they do this without actually trying to understand why the students have difficulties learning about X. I just can’t believe it – the first thing you should when you see that something is wrong is to try to understand why it’s wrong, not just build a tool and...
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