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Title:
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TOWARD THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADAPTIVE LEARNING SYSTEM --- INVESTIGATIONS OF BEGINNERS IN PROGRAMMING COURSE BASED ON LEARNING STRATEGIES AND PROGRAMMING TEST WITH GRADUAL LEVELS |
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Author(s):
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Tomoko Sagisaka , Shigeyoshi Watanabe |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-69-0 |
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Editors:
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Kinshuk, Demetrios G Sampson, J. Michael Spector, Pedro Isaías and Dirk Ifenthaler |
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Year:
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2008 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Beginners' C-programming course, learning strategies, learning support rules |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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371 |
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Last Page:
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376 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Beginner's programming courses for University freshmen always have the high number of dropout and low achievers. To
find the cause of this problem, we investigated into students in beginners' programming course based on learning
strategies and programming test with gradual level. These investigations have two research questions: 1) what kind of
learning strategies student have, which affect their grade and learning performance? 2) what type of questions in the
programming test students cannot answer, and in particular the differences in the unanswered questions that exist among
four student groups with the learning levels. The result shows the evident differences about the learning strategies and
the programming test among the four student groups with the learning levels. This study also did discriminant analysis of
the result of learning strategies to predict the upper and lower groups and shows the equation that can predict about 90%
of all students correctly. Additionally this study did decision tree analysis of these results and generates some learningsupport
rules for these student groups. We finally give some ideas on adaptive learning support for programming course. |
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