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Dunhong Yao; Jing Lin – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Programming education consistently faces challenges in bridging theory with practice and fostering students' cognitive competencies. This 12-year longitudinal study (2011-2023) investigates an innovative competency-based teaching model in university C programming education that integrates six educational theories into a coherent framework with…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Computer Science Education, Programming, Longitudinal Studies
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DeLiema, David; Kwon, Yejin Angela; Chisholm, Andrea; Williams, Immanuel; Dahn, Maggie; Flood, Virginia J.; Abrahamson, Dor; Steen, Francis F. – Cognition and Instruction, 2023
When teachers, researchers, and students describe productively responding to moments of failure in the learning process, what might this mean? Blending prior theoretical and empirical research on the relationship between failure and learning, and empirical results from four data sets that are part of a larger design-based research project, we…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Learning Processes, Correlation, Failure
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Peters, Anne-Kathrin – Contributions from Science Education Research, 2019
Decades of research on engagement, retention, and under-representation in STEM conclude that a better understanding of learner development as a long-term, social process is needed. Social identity theory is increasingly used to understand the interplay between individual development and social structure. The present report summarises findings from…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Self Concept, Longitudinal Studies, STEM Education
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Siozou, Stefania; Tselios, Nikolaos; Komis, Vassilis – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to compare the effect of different representations while teaching basic algorithmic concepts to novice programmers. Design/methodology/approach: A learning activity was designed and mediated with two conceptually different learning environments, each one used by a different group. The first group used the…
Descriptors: Flow Charts, Programming, Longitudinal Studies, Comparative Analysis
Suydam, Marilyn N., Ed.; Kasten, Margaret L., Ed. – Investigations in Mathematics Education, 1988
This publication is a compilation of abstracts and critical comments for 12 published investigations in mathematics education. Information for each study includes: purpose; rationale; research design and procedures; findings; and interpretations. For each study also, abstractor's comments provide a brief critique. The 12 studies are: (1)…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science, Computer Uses in Education
Suydam, Marilyn N., Ed.; Kasten, Margaret L., Ed. – Investigations in Mathematics Education, 1988
This publication is an abstracted compilation of 11 investigations. The information includes purpose, rationale, research design and procedures, findings, interpretations, abstractor's comments, previous research, procedure and statistical methods, and further research. Contained within are: (1) "Gender-Based Differential Item Performance in…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science, Computer Uses in Education