The Different Types of Contributions to Knowledge (in CER): All Needed, But Not All Recognised

IF 3.2 3区工程技术 Q1 EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES

ACM Transactions on Computing Education Pub Date : 2023-01-18 DOI:https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3487053

Steve Draper, Joseph Maguire

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Abstract

The overall aim of this article is to stimulate discussion about the activities within CER, and to develop a more thoughtful and explicit perspective on the different types of research activity within CER, and their relationships with each other. While theories may be the most valuable outputs of research to those wishing to apply them, for researchers themselves there are other kinds of contributions important to progress in the field. This is what relates it to the immediate subject of this special journal issue on theory in CER. We adopt as our criterion for value “contribution to knowledge”.

This article’s main contributions are

–	A set of 12 categories of contributions which together indicate the extent of this terrain of contributions to research.
–	Leading into that is a collection of ideas and misconceptions which are drawn on in defining and motivating “ground rules”, which are hints and guidance on the need for various often neglected categories. These are also helpful in justifying some additional categories which make the set as a whole more useful in combination.

These are followed by some suggested uses for the categories, and a discussion assessing how the success of the article might be judged.

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不同类型的知识贡献(在CER中):都需要，但不是都认可

本文的总体目标是激发对CER内部活动的讨论，并对CER内部不同类型的研究活动及其相互关系发展出更深思熟虑和更明确的观点。虽然对于那些希望应用理论的人来说，理论可能是最有价值的研究成果，但对于研究人员自己来说，还有其他类型的贡献对该领域的进步很重要。这就是它与这期关于CER理论的特刊的直接主题的联系。我们采用“对知识的贡献”作为衡量价值的标准。本文的主要贡献是——一组12类贡献，它们共同表明了这一领域对研究的贡献的程度。在定义和激励“基本规则”时所使用的一系列想法和误解导致了这一点，这些“基本规则”是对各种经常被忽视的类别的需求的提示和指导。这些也有助于证明一些额外的类别，这些类别使集合作为一个整体在组合时更有用。接下来是对这些分类的一些建议用途，以及如何判断文章是否成功的讨论。

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ACM Transactions on Computing Education EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES-

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6.50

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16.70%

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期刊介绍： ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE) (formerly named JERIC, Journal on Educational Resources in Computing) covers diverse aspects of computing education: traditional computer science, computer engineering, information technology, and informatics; emerging aspects of computing; and applications of computing to other disciplines. The common characteristics shared by these papers are a scholarly approach to teaching and learning, a broad appeal to educational practitioners, and a clear connection to student learning.