TY - GEN
T1 - A systematic review of the use of Bloom's taxonomy in computer science education
AU - Masapanta-Carrión, Susana
AU - Velázquez-Iturbide, J. Ángel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2018/2/21
Y1 - 2018/2/21
N2 - Bloom's taxonomy is a model that allows characterizing students' learning achievements. It is frequently used in computer science education (CSE), but its use is not straightforward. We present a systematic review conducted to know actual use of the taxonomy in CSE. We found that it was mostly used in programming education and to assess students' performance. A more relevant contribution is a classification of authors' difficulties. In particular, the most often reported difficulty is determining the level of the taxonomy where an assessment task can be classified. In addition, we present authors' hypotheses about possible causes of the difficulties and the solutions they adopted.
AB - Bloom's taxonomy is a model that allows characterizing students' learning achievements. It is frequently used in computer science education (CSE), but its use is not straightforward. We present a systematic review conducted to know actual use of the taxonomy in CSE. We found that it was mostly used in programming education and to assess students' performance. A more relevant contribution is a classification of authors' difficulties. In particular, the most often reported difficulty is determining the level of the taxonomy where an assessment task can be classified. In addition, we present authors' hypotheses about possible causes of the difficulties and the solutions they adopted.
KW - Bloom's taxonomy
KW - Computer science education
KW - Difficulties
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85046099635
U2 - 10.1145/3159450.3159491
DO - 10.1145/3159450.3159491
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85046099635
T3 - SIGCSE 2018 - Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
SP - 441
EP - 446
BT - SIGCSE 2018 - Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2018
Y2 - 21 February 2018 through 24 February 2018
ER -