Knowledge Integration through Exploratory Question Posing

IKnowIT

Topic: Data Structures

Target audience: 2nd year CS/IT undergraduates

No of students trained: 300

Research Team: Shitanshu Mishra, Sridhar Iyer

When students encounter new knowledge it is fragmented, fragile and not well connected to their existing knowledge. It is highly desirable that students integrate knowledge pieces effectively. Shitanshu, as part of his thesis, investigated how question posing led to better knowledge integration in a data-structures course. He developed a learning environment, IKnowIT which employed exploratory question-posing (EQP) as a strategy to improve students’ knowledge integration. Results from his thesis showed that the designed IKnowIT-pedagogy successfully fostered learners’ cognitive processes of knowledge integration using EQP.

Publications

Mishra, S., & Iyer, S. (2013, December). Problem Posing Exercises (PPE): An instructional strategy for learning of complex material in introductory programming courses. In 2013 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Technology for Education (t4e 2013) (pp. 151-158). IEEE.
Mishra, S. (2014, July). Developing students’ problem-posing skills. In Proceedings of the tenth annual conference on International computing education research (pp. 163-164). ACM.
Mishra, S., & Iyer, S. (2015, June). Question-Posing strategies used by students for exploring Data Structures. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (pp. 171-176). ACM.
Mishra, S., & Iyer, S. (2015). An exploration of problem posing-based activities as an assessment tool and as an instructional strategy. Research and practice in technology enhanced learning, 10(1), 5.
Mishra, S. (2016, August). Improving Students’ Knowledge Integration in Data Structures. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (pp. 293-294). ACM.