@techreport{TR-IC-18-16,
   number = {IC-18-16},
   author  =  {Ricardo Caceffo and Steve Wolfman and Kellogg Booth and
                   Guilherme  Gama  and Islene Garcia and Tania Caldas
                   and Rodolfo Azevedo},
   title = {An Exploratory Questionnaire to Support the Identification
                   and  Assessment  of  Misconceptions  in CS1 Courses
                   Based on C Programming Language},
   month = {October},
   year = {2018},
   institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas},
   note = {In English, 40 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{brazil}\textbf{Abstract}
       This Technical Report is part of an ongoing work to develop and
       assess  a  Concept  Inventory  (CI)  for  Introductory Computer
       Programming  Courses (CS1) based on the C programming language.
       A  CI is a set of multiple-choice questions that can be used to
       assess  the students' comprehension on some topic at some point
       during  a  course.  Each  incorrect  choice  corresponds  to  a 
       specific   misconception  --  an  inaccurate  line  of  thought 
       students  often  follow. CIs exist for several knowledge areas,
       such as physics, chemistry, and statistics. In previous work we
       identified,  through  the  analysis  of  open-ended  exams  and 
       interviews  with  instructors, 19 misconceptions related to CS1
       courses  in the C programming language. The misconceptions were
       grouped  into  7  topics:  function  parameter  use  and scope;
       variables;  recursion;  iteration;  structures;  pointers;  and 
       boolean  expressions.  In  this work, we: a) present in details
       the  19  misconceptions identified on the previous work and; b)
       present  the  Exploratory  Questionnaire  created to assess the
       previous    work's    misconceptions   and   also   allow   the  
       identification  of  new  misconceptions.  This Technical Report
       will  be referenced by an article that explains the Exploratory
       Questionnaire   design   and   the   results   of   its  online 
       administration,   including   the   student's  performance  and 
       individual think-aloud interviews with selected participants.
  }
}