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Madhyastha, Tara; Tanimoto, Steven – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2009
A number of educational researchers have developed pedagogical approaches that involve the teacher in discovering and helping to correct misconceptions that students bring to their study of their subject matter. During the last decade, several computer systems have been developed to support teaching and learning using this kind of approach. A…
Descriptors: Educational Researchers, Educational Theories, College Students, Misconceptions
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Sajaniemi, Jorma; Kuittinen, Marja; Tikansalo, Taina – Journal on Educational Resources in Computing, 2008
Students' understanding of object-oriented (OO) program execution was studied by asking students to draw a picture of a program state at a specific moment. Students were given minimal instructions on what to include in their drawings in order to see what they considered to be central concepts and relationships in program execution. Three drawing…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Programming, Student Development, Misconceptions
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Lehrer, Richard; Littlefield, Joan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1991
Whether software-based mediated instruction reduces the incidence of misconceptions and errors by children learning the LOGO computer language was studied with 24 fourth and 46 second graders. Mediated instruction reduced errors and misconceptions compared to those detected in prior studies. The roles of working memory and true misunderstandings…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science Education, Computer Software, Educational Practices