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Evaluation of a collaborative instructional framework for programming learning

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Luis Miguel Serrano Cámara,

Maximiliano Paredes Velasco,

Jesús Ángel Velázquez-IturbideAuthors Info & Claims

ITiCSE '12: Proceedings of the 17th ACM annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

Pages 162 - 167

https://doi.org/10.1145/2325296.2325338

Published: 03 July 2012 Publication History

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Our work lies within the collaborative approach to learning CS1. We developed an instructional framework for collaborative learning (named CIF) that is oriented by educational objectives at the analysis level of Bloom's taxonomy. Moreover, the framework is supported by a platform (named MoCAS) of collaborative tools delivered with mobile devices. In this paper an experiment is presented to evaluate the educational effectiveness of CIF and MoCAS vs. three different learning approaches. We selected a topic representative of analysis tasks, namely scope of identifiers. The experiment was conducted with four groups, respectively using a classical lecture format, a collaborative approach, the CIF framework, and CIF plus the MoCAS tool. The experiment obtains statistically significant results, showing enhanced learning with the joint use of CIF and MoCAS.

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ITiCSE '12: Proceedings of the 17th ACM annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

July 2012

424 pages

ISBN:9781450312462

DOI:10.1145/2325296

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Technion, Israel
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Aarhus University, Denmark
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Technion, Israel

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