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Peer reviewedBayman, Piraye; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1988
BASIC programing was taught to 95 undergraduates from a manual emphasizing the language's syntax or from a manual that included additional material on the underlying semantics. Both approaches produced equivalent learning of syntactic features of BASIC; however, semantically trained students developed fewer misconceptions and performed better on…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Misconceptions
