Number of Program Builds: Another Criterium for Assessing Difficulty of a Programming Task?
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://infedu.vu.lt/journal/INFEDU/article/786/info" target="_blank" >https://infedu.vu.lt/journal/INFEDU/article/786/info</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/infedu.2024.23" target="_blank" >10.15388/infedu.2024.23</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Number of Program Builds: Another Criterium for Assessing Difficulty of a Programming Task?
Original language description
The paper discusses an alternative method of assessing the difficulty of pupils' programming tasks to determine their age appropriateness. Building a program takes the form of its successive iterations. Thus, it is possible to monitor the number of times such a program was built by the solver. The variance of the number of program builds can be considered as a criterion of the difficulty of the task. We seek to verify whether this variance is the greatest in the age group for which the task is most suitable. We created several series of programming tasks and offered them to 87000 pupils from 4(th) to 13(th) grade. For each task, we compared the optimal age group determined by the variance of the number of program builds method with the group determined by the correct answer ratio method. A strong correlation was observed in traditional microworlds Karel the Robot and Turtle. A moderate correlation was achieved in the new microworld Movie.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Informatics in Education
ISSN
1648-5831
e-ISSN
2335-8971
Volume of the periodical
23
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
LT - LITHUANIA
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
525-540
UT code for WoS article
001320668000002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85204196293