Assessment of problem solving ability in novice programmers

A Pattern-Based Problem-Solving Process for Novice Programmers

A flowchart-based intelligent tutoring system for improving problem-solving skills of novice programmers

Intelligent tutoring and personalization are considered as the two most important factors in the research of learning systems and environments. An effective tool that can be used to improve problem-solving ability is an Intelligent Tutoring System which is capable of mimicking a human tutor’s actions in implementing a one-to-one personalized and adaptive teaching. In this paper, a novel Flowcha...

A Flowchart-bas Ed Multi-agent S Ystem for Assisting Novice Programmers with Problem Solving Activities

In the early stages of learning computer programming, Computer Science (CS) minors share a misconception of what programming is. In order to address this problem, FMAS, a flowchart-based multi-agent system is developed to familiarize students who have no prior knowledge of programming, with the initial stages in learning programming. The aim is to improve students’ problem solving skills and to...

static versus dynamic assessment of l2 learners’ reading ability

dynamic assessment according to vygotskys sociocultural theory, states that instruction and assessment are interrelated. using static forms of assessment with second and foreign language students could do more harm than good. many teachers neglect to take account of the complexity involved in learning a second or foreign language and often wonder why learning of a language take so long. thi...

Visualizing Roles of Variables to Novice Programmers

Many students learning to write computer programs encounter considerable difficulties. For novices, one of the key problems is in understanding how the very basic programming constructs work. In this paper, we concentrate on visualizing the role of a variable, i.e., the dynamic character of a variable embodied by the sequence of its successive values as related to other variables. We present a ...