Toward the effective use of educational program animations: The roles of student's engagement and topic complexity

Urquiza-Fuentes, Jaime; Velázquez‐Iturbide, J. Ángel

doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2013.02.013

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“…This taxonomy lists six levels of increasing engagement, 1)no viewing, 2)viewing, 1 http://docs.python.org/2/reference/grammar.html 3)responding, 4) changing, 5) constructing, and 6)presenting. However, the increasing engagement of the student does not always lead to increased grades [20]. This result may indicate that classical grading does not evaluate all the benefits of engaging educational tools.…”

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confidence: 62%

“…Future research should evaluate the impact of conflictive animations on different conceptual levels that are also prone to misconceptions, e.g., "statements" level concepts such as assignments. Even thoughÚrquiza-Fuentes and Velázquez-Iturbide [20] found that the impact of animations is higher in complex topics, this has not been the case, and there may be a barrier for very complex topics.…”

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confidence: 95%

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Defining and evaluating conflictive animations for programming education

Moreno

Sutinen

Joy

2014

Proceedings of the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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A review of the practical uses of errors in education reveals three contexts where errors have been shown to help: teaching conceptual knowledge, changing students' attitudes and promoting learning skills. Conflictive animations form a novel approach to teaching programming that follows a long tradition on research and development on program animation tools. Conflictive animations link the benefits of errors with program animation tools and programming education. This approach involves presenting to the students conflictive animations that do not animate faithfully the programs or concepts taught. Conflictive animations are versatile enough to cover the fundamental building blocks of programs such as operators, expressions and statements. With conflictive animations a novel set of learning activities can be introduced to computer science classes. This conflictive dimension of activities augments an engagement taxonomy for animation tools at all levels. They are an example of activities that promote critical thinking. A particular implementation of conflictive animations has been empirically evaluated aiming for ecological validity rather than statistical significance. Results indicate that students using conflictive animations improve their metacognitive skills, and, when compared to a control group, their conceptual knowledge improves at a better rate.

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Section: Pedagogical Uses Of Conflictive Animationsmentioning

confidence: 62%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Defining and evaluating conflictive animations for programming education

Moreno

Sutinen

Joy

2014

Proceedings of the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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“…In light of cognitive constructivism, the role of SV is not as an artefact to transfer knowledge to the student, but rather to enable the student to construct the knowledge through active engagement (8). Active learning is one of the principles of cognitive constructivism, whereby the learner could actively construct new understandings by becoming actively engaged with their activity (22). Therefore, the PV designer should consider different types of activities and engagement features to increase the learners' active engagement and enable them to construct knowledge (8,20).…”

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Social Worked-Examples Technique to Enhance Student Engagement in Program Visualization

Al-Sakkaf¹

2019

Baghdad Sci.J

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Learning programming is among the top challenges in computer science education. A part of that, program visualization (PV) is used as a tool to overcome the high failure and drop-out rates in an introductory programming course. Nevertheless, there are rising concerns about the effectiveness of the existing PV tools following the mixed results derived from various studies. Student engagement is also considered a vital factor in building a successful PV, while it is also an important part of the learning process in general. Several techniques have been introduced to enhance PV engagement; however, student engagement with PV is still challenging. This paper employed three theories—constructivism, social constructivism and cognitive load to propose a technique for enhancing student engagement with program visualisation. The social worked-examples (SWE) technique transforms the traditional worked-example into a social activity, whereby a greater focus is placed on the collaboration role in constructing students’ knowledge. This study identified three principles that could enhance student engagement through the SWE technique: active learning, social collaboration and low-load activity.

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“…The concept of school engagement has attracted growing interest as a way to ameliorate low levels of academic achievement, high levels of student boredom and disaffection, and high dropout rates in the world [1][2][3][4][5] . Meanwhile, more and more researchers have combined the teaching effectiveness with student engagement [6][7][8] . In China, the effectiveness of teaching of Ideological Political and Theories Curriculum (IPTC) in Chinese higher education has increasingly become more and more important than ever [9][10] .…”

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Student Engagement: An Investigation into the Effectiveness of Teaching in Ideological and Political Theories Courses (IPTC) For Undergraduates in China-Based Higher Education

Wang¹,

Fan²,

Feng³

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 International Seminar on Education Research and Social Science (ISERSS 2018)

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In the paper, the area of study is first defined by the authors that is an investigation into student engagement in Ideological and Political Theories Courses (IPTC) teaching for undergraduates in China-based higher education, detailing the aims of the proposed research project that is beneficial for China Dual "First-Class" universities development. Then, the authors outlined the three potential questions in the research according to the discipline facts and relevance of research based on the previous research they conducted in this field. Additionally, the research activities have been shown in the paper. Next, an indication o f the approach to the research was provided and how they were shown in different parts of the study. Finally, in conclusion section, the comments have been made by the authors on the potential meaning for the IPTC effective teaching and also the limitation of the study is displayed.

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Toward the effective use of educational program animations: The roles of student's engagement and topic complexity

Cited by 30 publications

References 23 publications

Defining and evaluating conflictive animations for programming education

Defining and evaluating conflictive animations for programming education

Social Worked-Examples Technique to Enhance Student Engagement in Program Visualization

Student Engagement: An Investigation into the Effectiveness of Teaching in Ideological and Political Theories Courses (IPTC) For Undergraduates in China-Based Higher Education

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