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CE
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
An empirical study on students' ability to comprehend design patterns
Design patterns have become a widely acknowledged software engineering practice and therefore have been incorporated in the curricula of most computer science departments. This pa...
Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, Nikolaos Tsantalis, Igna...
IWPC
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Empirical Evaluation of a UML Sequence Diagram with Adornments to Support Understanding of Thread Interactions
Programs that use multi-threaded concurrency are known to be difficult to design. Moreover, research in computer-science education suggests that concurrency and synchronization co...
Shaohua Xie, Eileen Kraemer, R. E. Kurt Stirewalt
ITS
2000
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Analyzing and Generating Mathematical Models: An Algebra II Cognitive Tutor Design Study
This paper reports a formative analysis of a Math Modeling Tool in the Algebra II Cognitive Tutor. This tutor is designed to support algebraic reasoning about real world problems. ...
Albert T. Corbett, Megan McLaughlin, K. Christine ...
ESEM
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
An Empirical Study of the Effects of Gestalt Principles on Diagram Understandability
Comprehension errors in software design must be detected at their origin to avoid propagation into later portions of the software lifecycle and also the final system. This researc...
Krystle Lemon, Edward B. Allen, Jeffrey C. Carver,...
UMUAI
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Modeling self-efficacy in intelligent tutoring systems: An inductive approach
Abstract. Self-efficacy is an individual's belief about her ability to perform well in a given situation. Because selfefficacious students are effective learners, endowing int...
Scott W. McQuiggan, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Les...