The design and pilot evaluation of an interactive learning environment for introductory programming influenced by cognitive load theory and constructivism

Moons, Jan; Backer, Carlos de

doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2012.08.009

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“…Another fresh study by Moons and De Backer (2013) clearly reported that the novel program visualization environment has a positive influence on the understanding of the students of a program containing a recursive method. The educational programming environment employed program visualization techniques to help teachers and students of an introductory programming course.…”

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Effectiveness of Combining Algorithm and Program Animation: A Case Study with Data Structure Course

Osman

Elmusharaf

2014

IISIT

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Data Structure is an important and mandatory course in Computer Science and Information Technology curricula. The topics of the course require detailed view of the algorithm behavior with the implementation part by a programming language. This paper introduces a visualized learning environment and assesses the effectiveness of using this system in order to enhance the education in computer science and information technology concerning data structure course. Whether the use of the system will produce remarkable enough affects to encourage the developers to enhance such systems. The system uses embedded visualizer rather than external visualizer to produce the animation. The significant result of the experiment indicates that combining Algorithm and Program Animation is an effective way to enhance students' performance.

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Effectiveness of Combining Algorithm and Program Animation: A Case Study with Data Structure Course

Osman

Elmusharaf

2014

IISIT

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“…The literature on the studies exploring the IDEs in a way that would facilitate novice learning based on the principles of CLT and ML is also insufficient (Moons & Backer, 2013). For example, Pane and Myers (1996) report the usability issues in the design of novice programming systems, and they provide important ML and cognitive guidelines by organizing the research about the IDEs for novice programmers.…”

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Evaluation of learning environments for object-oriented programming: measuring cognitive load with a novel measurement technique

Uysal

2015

Interactive Learning Environments

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“…Moons & Backer, 2013;Liu, Cheng & Huang, 2011;Johnsgard & McDonald, 2008;entre outros). No entanto, apesar de existirem estudos que apresentam resultados promissores nesta área (cf.…”

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Desenvolvimento e validação de uma prova de avaliação das competências iniciais de programação

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Resumo: Atualmente verifica-se a insuficiência de instrumentos de avaliação validados que possam mensurar as diferentes etapas de aprendizagem inicial de programação. Por este motivo desenvolvemos uma prova a partir da Taxonomia de Bloom que permite comparar o desempenho dos alunos independentemente da linguagem de programação com que iniciaram a sua aprendizagem. A prova apresenta questões de escolha múltipla para os quatro níveis iniciais e questões de desenvolvimento para os dois últimos níveis. Após a sua construção, foi validada por 12 especialistas e submetida a um grupo-piloto (N=29) para analisar a fiabilidade e dificuldade dos itens. Obtivemos um alfa de 0,837 e correlação positiva entre todos os itens da prova e o total dos itens com nível de significância p<0,05. As diferenças entre a frequência de respostas corretas nos itens são estatisticamente significativas (Q(12)=76,767; n=29; p=0,000). Estes resultados demonstram que a prova é válida, fiável e discriminativa.Palavras-chave: Programação Inicial; Taxonomia de Bloom; Desempenho; Validação; Fiabilidade Development and Validation of an Assessment Instrument of the Initial Programming SkillsAbstract: Nowadays there is a noticeable lack of validated evaluation instruments that can measure the different stages of initial programming learning. For this reason, we developed an instrument from Bloom's Taxonomy that allows to compare the students' performance regardless of the programming language with which they started their learning. The instrument presents multiple choice questions for the first four levels and open-ended questions for the last two levels. After its construction, it was validated by 12 specialists and submitted to a pilotgroup (N=29) to analyze the items' reliability and difficulty. We obtained an alpha of 0,837 and positive correlation between al the test's items and the total of items with a significance level of p<0,05. The differences between the frequency of correct answers in the items are statistically significative (Q(12) =76,767; n=29; p=0,000). These results demonstrate that the test is valid, reliable and discriminative.

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The design and pilot evaluation of an interactive learning environment for introductory programming influenced by cognitive load theory and constructivism

Cited by 65 publications

References 31 publications

Effectiveness of Combining Algorithm and Program Animation: A Case Study with Data Structure Course

Effectiveness of Combining Algorithm and Program Animation: A Case Study with Data Structure Course

Evaluation of learning environments for object-oriented programming: measuring cognitive load with a novel measurement technique

Desenvolvimento e validação de uma prova de avaliação das competências iniciais de programação

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