TY - GEN
T1 - Transfer, cognitive load, and program design difficulties
AU - Ginat, David
AU - Shifroni, Eyal
AU - Menashe, Eti
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - We display a series of five studies of student difficulties with transfer during the design of computer programs. The difficulties are characterized with five transfer aspects - recognition, abstraction, mapping, embedment, and flexibility. Each study involves a programming task, and unfolds difficulties with one or more of the above aspects. The majority of the posed tasks were rather simple CS1 (Computer Science 1) or CS2 tasks, and involved specific transfer. One of the posed tasks was more involved and required both specific and non-specific transfer (and a subtler combination of the above aspects). We tie our findings to the notion of cognitive load, and its sub-notion of intrinsic cognitive load. Following our findings, we offer recommendations and guidelines for tutors, for developing improved transfer in program design.
AB - We display a series of five studies of student difficulties with transfer during the design of computer programs. The difficulties are characterized with five transfer aspects - recognition, abstraction, mapping, embedment, and flexibility. Each study involves a programming task, and unfolds difficulties with one or more of the above aspects. The majority of the posed tasks were rather simple CS1 (Computer Science 1) or CS2 tasks, and involved specific transfer. One of the posed tasks was more involved and required both specific and non-specific transfer (and a subtler combination of the above aspects). We tie our findings to the notion of cognitive load, and its sub-notion of intrinsic cognitive load. Following our findings, we offer recommendations and guidelines for tutors, for developing improved transfer in program design.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=81855209798&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24722-4_15
DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24722-4_15
M3 - منشور من مؤتمر
SN - 9783642247217
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 165
EP - 176
BT - Informatics in Schools
T2 - 5th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution and Perspectives, ISSEP 2011
Y2 - 26 October 2011 through 29 October 2011
ER -