On 24/02/06, Linxiao Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, everyone! > > I am very interested at mental models issue in programming education. > Personally, I totally agree with that many novices can not construct > accurate and complete mental models of program execution. This is an > important reason for the low performance of students in understanding > programming concepts. > > I hope to know whether or not there are some well-established research > methods for measuring students' mental models. in other word, a research > method to test whether or not students indeed lack accurate and > complete mental models.
You might want to have a look at Saeed Dehnadi and Richard Bornat's work in this area. See Richard's homepage: http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/r_bornat/ and you can Google for his presentation at the recent PPIG workshop. Regards, Sarah -- http://www.mis.coventry.ac.uk/research/imd/ http://varspool.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
