Number of Program Builds: Another Criterium for Assessing Difficulty of a Programming Task?

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12410%2F24%3A43908239" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12410/24:43908239 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Number of Program Builds: Another Criterium for Assessing Difficulty of a Programming Task?

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The paper discusses an alternative method of assessing the difficulty of pupils&apos; 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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Number of Program Builds: Another Criterium for Assessing Difficulty of a Programming Task?

Popis výsledku anglicky

The paper discusses an alternative method of assessing the difficulty of pupils&apos; 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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Informatics in Education

ISSN

1648-5831

e-ISSN

2335-8971

Svazek periodika

23

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

LT - Litevská republika

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

525-540

Kód UT WoS článku

001320668000002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85204196293