Developing and Evaluating Scaffolding for Student-Generated Analogies in CS1

Abstract

Analogies are extensively employed as a tool to facilitate conceptual understanding in computer science education. Sociocultural differences among students and students' tendency to overextend analogies pose non-trivial challenges to the effective use of analogies in computing classrooms. This study will examine the viability of scaffolded student-generated analogies to overcome such hurdles and effectively facilitate conceptual learning in a CS1 context.