{"pk":28735,"title":"Resource-Rich versus Resource-Poor Assessment in Introductory Computer Science\nand its Implications on Models of Cognition: An in-Class Experimental Study","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Outside university, students encounter disciplinary practices\nmediated by technological resources. In this sense, the real\nworld is decidedly resource-rich. In contrast, most educational\nassessments remain decidedly resource-poor. Situated versus\nmindbased perspectives of cognition fundamentally differ in\nthe role they ascribe to such resources in cognition and\nlearning. To mindbased perspectives, they are a source of input,\nto situated perspectives they are constitutive to cognition itself.\nWe assessed the validity of resource-rich versus resource-poor\nassessments of learning outcomes from resource-rich versus\nresource-poor learning activities. The study implemented an\nin-class 2x2 between-subjects experimental design in an\nintroductory programming course with 192 first semester BSc\nengineering students. Both types of assessment were sensitive\nto differences in learning outcomes, indicating validity for\nboth. Results indicate resource-rich assessments may be more\necologically valid, while – intriguingly – the resource-poor\nassessments were more sensitive to transfer of learning.\nFurthermore, the resource-rich learning activities better\nfacilitated learning for transfer.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"assessment; examinations; resource-rich\nassessment; resource-affordances; higher education; learning\nscience; computer science education; e-assessment;\neducational technology; situated cognition"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8s28n505","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Tobias","middle_name":"","last_name":"Halbherr","name_suffix":"","institution":"ETH Zurich","department":""},{"first_name":"Hermann","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lehner","name_suffix":"","institution":"ETH Zurich","department":""},{"first_name":"Manu","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kapur","name_suffix":"","institution":"ETH Zurich","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28735/galley/18606/download/"}]}