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Suggestions for graduated exposure to programming concepts using fading worked examples

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Caroline St. Clair,

Jerry MeadAuthors Info & Claims

ICER '07: Proceedings of the third international workshop on Computing education research

Pages 99 - 110

https://doi.org/10.1145/1288580.1288594

Published: 15 September 2007 Publication History

Abstract

The fading worked example has emerged from cognitive load theory as an effective strategy for lowering cognitive load in the novice phase of skill acquisition and has been shown to be effective in mathematics, engineering and psychology. This theoretical paper proposes the application of the fading worked example strategy to programming education.

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    1. Computing education
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