University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Relationship Between Learning Programming and Problem-Solving Ability

Tu, Jho-Ju

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Title
The Relationship Between Learning Programming and Problem-Solving Ability
Author(s)
Tu, Jho-Ju
Issue Date
1988
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Dennis, Richard,
Department of Study
Education
Discipline
Education
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
  • Education, Tests and Measurements
  • Education, Technology of
  • Education, Curriculum and Instruction
Abstract
This study is aimed to clarify the relationship between programming experience and problem-solving abilities. The students in three introductory programming courses (CS103-FORTRAN, CS105-PASCAL, CS106-BASIC) offered by the Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the fall semester of 1987 served as the subjects for this one-semester long study. They were given pretests and posttests on problems in seven categories: word problem translation, word problem solution, following procedures, following directions, logical reasoning, visual ability, and verbal ability. The results of this study showed that (a) overall student problem-solving abilities were significantly improved at the level of 0.05 after they had attended a semester long programming course, (b) the logical reasoning component of the definition contributed most to the significance, and (c) the class of CS105-PASCAL in this experiment had a significant effect in improving student ability to solve word problems.
Graduation Semester
1988
Type of Resource
text
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