Predictors of success in a first programming course
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Paper/Presentation Title | Predictors of success in a first programming course |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Fincher, Sally (Author), Robins, Anthony (Author), Baker, Bob (Author), Box, Ilona (Author), Cutts, Quintin (Author), de Raadt, Michael (Author), Haden, Patricia (Author), Hamer, John (Author), Hamilton, Margaret (Author), Lister, Raymond (Author), Petre, Marian (Author), Sutton, Ken (Author), Tolhurst, Denise (Author) and Tutty, Jodi (Author) |
Editors | Tolhurst, Denise and Mann, Samuel |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 8th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2006) |
Journal Citation | 52, pp. 189-196 |
Number of Pages | 8 |
Year | 2006 |
Place of Publication | Sydney, Australia |
ISBN | 1920682341 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV52Simon2.pdf |
Conference/Event | ACE 2006: 8th Australasian Computing Education Conference |
Event Details | ACE 2006: 8th Australasian Computing Education Conference Event Date 16 to end of 19 Jan 2006 Event Location Hobart, Australia |
Abstract | This paper describes a multi-national, multi-institutional study that investigated introductory programming courses .. Student participants were drawn from eleven institutions, mainly in Australasia, during the academic year of 2004. A number of diagnostic tasks were used to explore cognitive, behavioural, and attitudinal factors such as spatial visualisation and reasoning, the ability to articulate strategies for commonplace search and design tasks, and attitudes to studying. The results indicate that a deep approach to learning was positively correlated with mark for the course, while a surface approach was negatively correlated; spatial visualisation skills are correlated with success; a progression of map drawing styles identified in the literature has a significant correlation with marks; and increasing measures of richness of articulation of a search strategy are also associated with higher marks. Finally, a qualitative analysis of short interviews identified the qualities that students themselves regarded as important to success in |
Keywords | programming aptitude; education |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 469999. Other information and computing sciences not elsewhere classified |
520102. Educational psychology | |
390409. Learning sciences | |
Public Notes | Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 52. Reproduction for academic, not-for-profit purposes permitted provided this text is included. |
Byline Affiliations | University of Kent, United Kingdom |
University of Otago, New Zealand | |
University of New South Wales | |
University of Technology Sydney | |
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom | |
School of Information Systems | |
Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand | |
University of Auckland, New Zealand | |
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) | |
Open University, United Kingdom | |
Southern Insititute of Technology, New Zealand | |
Charles Darwin University |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9y1qv/predictors-of-success-in-a-first-programming-course
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