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Peer reviewedMayer, Richard E.; Fay, Anne Louise – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1987
This paper investigated three kinds of changes that could occur when a child learns to program in Logo. Novice programmers from fourth grade classes were given three sessions of Logo instruction. Results provided some preliminary evidence that productive learning of a programming language involves a chain of cognitive changes. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Intermediate Grades, Learning Processes, Logical Thinking
Peer reviewedFay, Anne Louise; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1987
This article examines naive conceptions of spatial reference that children bring to Logo programing language learning. Students from Grades 4, 5, 6, and 8 were introduced to six Logo commands, and then were tested on predicting the output for instances of each of the commands. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Structures, Computer Graphics, Intermediate Grades
