The ability to articulate strategy as a predictor of programming skill

Simon and Cutts, Quintin and Fincher, Sally and Haden, Patricia and Robins, Anthony and Sutton, Ken and Baker, Bob and Box, Ilona and de Raadt, Michael and Hamer, John and Hamilton, Margaret and Lister, Raymond (2006) The ability to articulate strategy as a predictor of programming skill. In: Tolhurst, Denise and Mann, Samuel, eds. UNSPECIFIED ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 52 . Australian Computing Society Inc., Darlinghurst, pp. 181-188. ISBN 1-920682-34-1. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:14508)

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Abstract

A multi-national, multi-institutional study investigating introductory programming courses drew on student participants 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. This paper reports in detail on the task that required participants to articulate a commonplace search strategy. The results indicate that increasing measures of richness of articulation of a search strategy are associated with higher marks in the course.

Item Type:	Book section
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions:	Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User:	Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited:	24 Nov 2008 18:04 UTC
Last Modified:	05 Nov 2024 09:49 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/14508 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Fincher, Sally.

Creator's ORCID:	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7347-108X
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