Using Alice in Overview Courses to Improve Success Rates in Programming I

Johnsgard, Karin; McDonald, James E.

doi:10.1109/cseet.2008.35

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“…Further, some issues of disagreement for CS0 include how much, if any, programming to include in CS0, whether to use a breadth-first or depth-first approach, and whether to use a separate CS0 for computing majors [13], targeted majors [14], [15] and non-majors [16], [17], [18]. Benefits of CS0/IT0 courses are discussed in [19], [20] for majors and in [21], [22] for the non-majors. A good summary of CS0 history from 1968 to the 1990s is given in [23].…”

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Teaching computing and programming fundamentals via App Inventor for Android

Karakuş

Uludag

Guler

et al. 2012

2012 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)

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In this age of growing importance for interdisciplinary studies, the field of computing, and its indispensable component, programming, have become increasingly important not only for STEM areas but also for many other fields. Computational chemistry, bio-informatics, computational linguistics, computational toxicology, etc. are just a few examples of the crossover disciplines that benefit significantly from the developments in the computing and Information Technology (IT). Instructors are facing more challenges today than ever in trying to come up with new, fresh and appealing methodologies to attract and retain students in delivering computing and IT related topics to a much broader audience. Computing courses and topics both for majors and non-majors need new approaches that motivate students to feel comfortable with the life-long learning of computing concepts and tools. The goal of this paper is to summarize our teaching experience in and the great potential of App Inventor for Android (AIA) in broadening the appeal and diffusion of fundamental computing and programming concepts. With a pedagogical foundation stemming from constructionist learning and contextualized computing education, we present our motivation and the details of courses that can greatly benefit from AIA.

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Teaching computing and programming fundamentals via App Inventor for Android

Karakuş

Uludag

Guler

et al. 2012

2012 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)

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“…Moons & Backer, 2013;Liu, Cheng & Huang, 2011;Johnsgard & McDonald, 2008;entre outros). No entanto, apesar de existirem estudos que apresentam resultados promissores nesta área (cf.…”

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“…No entanto, apesar de existirem estudos que apresentam resultados promissores nesta área (cf. Johnsgard & McDonald, 2008;Sykes, 2007;Wang, Mei, Lin, Chiu, & Lin, 2009;Zhang, Liu, &, Pablos, 2014) os instrumentos de recolha de dados utilizados variam significativamente, dificultando a possibilidade de retirar conclusões. Por exemplo, no estudo meta-analítico realizado por Costa e Miranda (2017), foi difícil comparar os resultados das investigações que visaram melhorar as competências de programação dos estudantes que se encontravam numa fase inicial de aprendizagem, não só porque foram usadas diferentes linguagens de programação, mas ainda porque a avaliação feita usou diferentes instrumentos de medida.…”

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“…Outras investigações usaram os resultados de provas académicas como medida de avaliação da aprendizagem inicial da programação (cf. Cooper, Dann, & Paush, 2003;Moskal, Lurie, & Cooper, 2004;Johnsgard, & McDonald, 2008;entre outros). Costa e Miranda (2017) referem que estas diferenças são um constrangimento à análise de resultados e que a existência de instrumentos validados para avaliar a aprendizagem da programação seria uma solução para melhorar a comparação entre diferentes estudos.…”

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Desenvolvimento e validação de uma prova de avaliação das competências iniciais de programação

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Resumo: Atualmente verifica-se a insuficiência de instrumentos de avaliação validados que possam mensurar as diferentes etapas de aprendizagem inicial de programação. Por este motivo desenvolvemos uma prova a partir da Taxonomia de Bloom que permite comparar o desempenho dos alunos independentemente da linguagem de programação com que iniciaram a sua aprendizagem. A prova apresenta questões de escolha múltipla para os quatro níveis iniciais e questões de desenvolvimento para os dois últimos níveis. Após a sua construção, foi validada por 12 especialistas e submetida a um grupo-piloto (N=29) para analisar a fiabilidade e dificuldade dos itens. Obtivemos um alfa de 0,837 e correlação positiva entre todos os itens da prova e o total dos itens com nível de significância p<0,05. As diferenças entre a frequência de respostas corretas nos itens são estatisticamente significativas (Q(12)=76,767; n=29; p=0,000). Estes resultados demonstram que a prova é válida, fiável e discriminativa.Palavras-chave: Programação Inicial; Taxonomia de Bloom; Desempenho; Validação; Fiabilidade Development and Validation of an Assessment Instrument of the Initial Programming SkillsAbstract: Nowadays there is a noticeable lack of validated evaluation instruments that can measure the different stages of initial programming learning. For this reason, we developed an instrument from Bloom's Taxonomy that allows to compare the students' performance regardless of the programming language with which they started their learning. The instrument presents multiple choice questions for the first four levels and open-ended questions for the last two levels. After its construction, it was validated by 12 specialists and submitted to a pilotgroup (N=29) to analyze the items' reliability and difficulty. We obtained an alpha of 0,837 and positive correlation between al the test's items and the total of items with a significance level of p<0,05. The differences between the frequency of correct answers in the items are statistically significative (Q(12) =76,767; n=29; p=0,000). These results demonstrate that the test is valid, reliable and discriminative.

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“…Alice [8] is a programming novice friendly language and does have a puzzlepiece based syntax, which is able to modify 3D objects in a 3D scene. A study that has been conducted at the Monmouth University has shown that the students' success rate was increased from less than 50% to 70% [9]. Scratch [10] has similar features (code puzzle pieces), but it focuses on 2D objects.…”

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A Mobile Device Based Serious Gaming Approach for Teaching and Learning Java Programming

Jordine

Liang

Ihler

2015

Int. J. Interact. Mob. Technol.

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Abstract-Most first year computer science students find that learning object-oriented programming is hard. Serious games have ever been used as one approach to handle this problem. But most of them cannot be played with mobile devices. This obviously does not suit the era of mobile computing that intends to allow students to learn programming skills in anytime anywhere. To enhance mobile teaching and learning, a research project started over a year ago and aims to create a mobile device based serious gaming approach along with a serious game for enhancing mobile teaching and learning for Java programming. So far the project has completed a literature review for understanding existing work and identifying problems in this area, conducted a survey for eliciting students' requirements for mobile gaming approach, and then established a mobiledevice based serious gaming approach with a developed prototype of the game. This paper introduces the project in details, and in particularly presents and discusses its current results. It is expected that the presented project will be helpful and useful to bring more efficient approaches with new mobile games into teaching object-oriented programming and to enhance students' learning experiences.

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Using Alice in Overview Courses to Improve Success Rates in Programming I

Cited by 20 publications

References 7 publications

Teaching computing and programming fundamentals via App Inventor for Android

Teaching computing and programming fundamentals via App Inventor for Android

Desenvolvimento e validação de uma prova de avaliação das competências iniciais de programação

A Mobile Device Based Serious Gaming Approach for Teaching and Learning Java Programming

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