A pilot study of cooperative programming learning behavior and its relationship with students' learning performance

Computers and Education

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1267-1281

  Hwang, Wu Yuin ^a   Shadiev, Rustam ^a   Wang, Chin Yu ^b   Huang, Zhi Hua ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b PROVIDENCE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cooperative collaborative learning; Distributed learning environments; Interactive learning environments; Pedagogical issues; Programming and programming languages

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE/COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; DISTRIBUTED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES; PROGRAMMING AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

MOTIVATION; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES; STUDENTS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84862824269     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2011.12.009     Document Type: Article

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