Effects of peer tutoring, attitude and personality on academic performance of first year introductory programming students

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 7-12

  Golding, Paul ^a   Facey Shaw, Lisa ^a   Tennant, Vanesa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Attitude to programming; Introductory programming; Peer tutoring; Personality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING COURSE; LEARNING PROGRAMMING; PEER TUTORING; PERSONALITY; PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 48749096745     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2006.322662     Document Type: Conference Paper

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