Building Research in Australasian Computing Education: First Workshop

		First Workshop 23-26 January 2004 Dunedin, New Zealand
	"Choose a research question"	"Choose a method to serve a question" Key lessons from Day 1	"Specific study design & methods" Key lessons from Day 2	"Experiment Kit" Key lessons from Day 3
	Fri Jan 23 Putting research methods in context	Sat Jan 24 How to ask questions and how to seek answers	Sun Jan 25 Working from purpose to technique	Mon Jan 26 Experiment Kit
9.00-10.30	INTRODUCTIONS & GOAL SETTING Epistemological Overview (.doc) Six Guiding Principles (.ppt)	PRAGMATIC STUDY DESIGN (AKA THINGS YOU SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT) 1-2-3 (.doc) Bias (.doc) Bias circle Vectors of bias (.doc) Validity (.doc)	APPROACHES Categorisation of papers (.ppt) “Trade offs” Slides (.doc) “Trade offs” matrix (.htm) or (.doc) Note Taking (.ppt)	PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER - INTRODUCING & WORKING THROUGH THE EXPERIMENT KIT
11.00-12.15	RESEARCH INTRODUCTION & OVERVIEW The Nature of Evidence (.doc)
12.15-12.30	WRITING ON THE WALL
LUNCH
13.30-15.00	TOWARDS A THEORY BASE A Rough Guide to Topics in CS Education Research (.ppt) Some preliminary question formulation (.doc) “Entry Points” for novice skills and behaviours	INTRODUCING RIGOUR Researcher Ethics (.ppt) “Entry Points” for some educational theory/theorists.	EXERCISES IN DESIGN REASONING Classic Pitfalls of Empirical Studies (.doc)	EXPERIEMNT KIT CONTINUATION and QUESTIONS
15.30-17.00	PRACTICAL SESSION	PRACTICAL SESSION Reflections on Day 1 Practical	PRACTICAL SESSION Reflections on Day 2 Practical (still to come)	TACTICS for BUILDING COMMUNITY Where is this Discourse? (.ppt) Literature cited in reading pack & ACE 2004 (.doc) Networking: Models and Mechanisms (.doc)
Evening	HOMEWORK