Failure Artifact Scenarios to Understand High School Students' Growth in Troubleshooting Physical Computing Projects

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17212v2
• Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 13:14:48 GMT
• Title: Failure Artifact Scenarios to Understand High School Students' Growth in Troubleshooting Physical Computing Projects
• Authors: L. Morales-Navarro, D. A. Fields, D. Barapatre, Y. B. Kafai
• Abstract summary: Physical computing projects provide a rich context to understand cross-disciplinary problem solving. Findings: Students improved in identifying bugs with greater specificity, across domains, and in considering multiple causes for bugs.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Debugging physical computing projects provides a rich context to understand cross-disciplinary problem solving that integrates multiple domains of computing and engineering. Yet understanding and assessing students' learning of debugging remains a challenge, particularly in understudied areas such as physical computing, since finding and fixing hardware and software bugs is a deeply contextual practice. In this paper we draw on the rich history of clinical interviews to develop and pilot "failure artifact scenarios" in order to study changes in students' approaches to debugging and troubleshooting electronic textiles (e-textiles). We applied this clinical interview protocol before and after an eight-week-long e-textiles unit. We analyzed pre/post clinical interviews from 18 students at four different schools. The analysis revealed that students improved in identifying bugs with greater specificity, and across domains, and in considering multiple causes for bugs. We discuss implications for developing tools to assess students' debugging abilities through contextualized debugging scenarios in physical computing.

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