Understanding how ideas move through a classroom as students explore, learn, and share their findings with other students is important for computational thinking education. We present a set of enhancements to MIT App Inventor to enable fine-grained analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data. Our framework combines real-time event streams, project snapshots, and screen captures with audio recording to allow for targeted queries around when components or concepts not previously seen appear in a project. This automated approach reduces the amount of time spent sifting through data by providing researchers new tools for performing analysis of App Inventor projects.

Sun 4 Nov

Displayed time zone: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey change

09:00 - 10:00
Limits People Reach & How to Get Past ThemBLOCKS+ at Beacon Hill
09:00
5m
Talk
Coding while Making: using Blocks Language in a Physical Computing Setting
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Karen H. Jin University of New Hampshire
Pre-print
09:05
5m
Talk
Abstractionless Programming in App Inventor
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Audrey Seo Wellesley College
Pre-print
09:10
5m
Talk
Beyond "I'm done": Encouraging deeper exploration of challenging computational concepts
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Paulina Haduong Harvard Graduate School of Education, Karen Brennan Harvard Graduate School of Education
Pre-print
09:15
5m
Talk
The Example Guru: Suggesting Examples to Novice Blocks Programmers in an Artifact-Based Context Increases Use of New Blocks
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Michelle Brachman University of Massachusetts Lowell, Caitlin Kelleher Washington University in St. Louis
Pre-print
09:20
5m
Talk
Research Tools for MIT App Inventor
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Evan W Patton Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mark Sherman CERT, Michael Tissenbaum University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Pre-print
09:25
15m
Other
Themed Session 1: Whole Group Discussion
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09:40
20m
Other
Themed Session 1: Break-out discussions
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