ADAPTIVE TUTORS FOR DEVELOPING VISUAL REASONING SKILLS IN PROGRAMMING COURSES

Rika Yoshii

2010

Abstract

This position paper argues that students who have difficulty programming often exhibit difficulty in building correct semantic representation of program statement effects. We argue for the need to develop and use tutoring software to help students develop visual reasoning skills in programming. Adaptive tutoring systems will allow students to work privately at their own pace. Example tutoring system designs incorporating visualization, adaptive learning, conversational tutoring and mastery learning are presented.

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in Harvard Style

Yoshii R. (2010). ADAPTIVE TUTORS FOR DEVELOPING VISUAL REASONING SKILLS IN PROGRAMMING COURSES . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-674-023-8, pages 364-367. DOI: 10.5220/0002860703640367


in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu10,
author={Rika Yoshii},
title={ADAPTIVE TUTORS FOR DEVELOPING VISUAL REASONING SKILLS IN PROGRAMMING COURSES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2010},
pages={364-367},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002860703640367},
isbn={978-989-674-023-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - ADAPTIVE TUTORS FOR DEVELOPING VISUAL REASONING SKILLS IN PROGRAMMING COURSES
SN - 978-989-674-023-8
AU - Yoshii R.
PY - 2010
SP - 364
EP - 367
DO - 10.5220/0002860703640367