This paper reports on the implication of different preferred learning styles on students'performance in the introductory programming sequence and on work in progress on how t...
Lynda Thomas, Mark Ratcliffe, John Woodbury, Emma ...
Recent research has shown that a student’s learning style – essentially, the way a student approaches and masters new material – can affect student performance in introducto...
There are numerous ways to evaluate student programming ability, all of which have benefits and drawbacks. In this paper we discuss how we have combined a number of those evaluati...
Learning to program is a unique experience for each student, and it is not fully understood why one person in an introductory programming course learns to program better and more ...
Vennila Ramalingam, Deborah LaBelle, Susan Wiedenb...
Novices find it difficult to understand and use compiler error messages. It is useful to refine this observation and study the effect of different message styles on how well and q...