BRACE Key Lessons: Day One

• Arrive on time
• Distinguish between research and practice
• Find a good question
  … then make it better
  … then cut it down and make it smaller
• Science proceeds in baby steps
• Balance Richness and Rigour
• Research something I WANT to research
• Never go to Marian and say “I was to design an experiment to prove …”
• Science is a Discourse
• Link research to relevant theory
• Marian’s Key Lesson: The value of evidence is the value of data plus the value of inference
• Sally’s Key Lesson: CS Education Research is a “Trading Zone”. We must learn to recognise and deal with our intellectual trading partners