An alternative paper is Scaffolding with Object Diagrams in First Year Programming Classes: Some Unexpected Results Lynda Thomas, Mark Ratcliffe and Benjy Thomasson from SIGCSE 2004
doing an invention study on the effect of introducing object-diagrams and the students performance in an intro prog. course. From the abstract: Although generally students who draw diagrams do better in questions that test their understanding of code behaviour and object referencing, our intervention does not appear to have helped students and the students who were exposed to the intervention were not more likely to go on to use the technique themselves /Jens Bennedsen > I have just had my paper entitled "Spatial skills and > navigation of source code" accepted for the ITiCSE > conference. One of the questions I have been asked is if > spatial ability correlates with program development ability, > an area not looked at in my study (I focussed on program > comprehension/reading). > > Does anyone know of any work showing correlations between the > ability to read and write code? And if there is any work to > show a relationship between WRITING code and > navigational/spatial ability? > > Thanks very much, > > Sue ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
