On Sep 14, 2004, at 1:02 AM, Michael Toomim wrote:
3) Education theory has been debating the validity of trying to teach generally transferrable skills for at least a century. I don't know of any specific results for the ability of programming skills to transfer to other aspects of life, but it seems that making a rigorous argument for it would be difficult.
And here are a couple of references to this line of research. First an old paper:
Judd, C. M. (1908) "The Relation of Special Training to General Intelligence." Educational Review, 36, 28-42.
... and then a new paper:
Barnett, S. M. and Ceci, S. J. (2002) "When and Where Do We Apply What We Learn? A Taxonomy for Far Transfer." Psychological Bulletin, 128(4), 612-637.
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