Suggestions for graduated exposure to programming concepts using fading worked examples

Third International Computing Education Research Workshop, ICER'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 99-110

  Gray, Simon ^a   St Clair, Caroline ^b   James, Richard ^c   Mead, Jerry ^d  

^a 931 College Mall   (United States)

^b NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c ROLLINS COLLEGE   (United States)

^d BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive load theory; Fading worked examples

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE LOAD THEORY; FADING WORKED EXAMPLES; LOAD THEORY; PROGRAMMING EDUCATION;

FADING CHANNELS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 38849186591     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1288580.1288594     Document Type: Conference Paper

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