There are a number of papers on the topic of measuring programmer
aptitude. In general, I would strongly recommend looking through the
Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG, http://www.ppig.org).
One paper in particular attracted a lot of attention about 4 years ago:
"Testing Programmer Aptitude"
(http://www.ppig.org/papers/18th-dehnadi.pdf). It was controversial at
the time but was followed up sometime later. Have a look at the author's
web page: Saeed Dehnadi
(http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/) for his followups
Another article that tries to measure aptitude is Jeff Kramer's article
on abstraction (in the Piaget sense) as a measure.
(http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.120.6776&rep=rep1&type=pdf)
though see the following for a, kind of, rebuttal
(http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1138430).
>>>bill<<<
Jurgis Pralgauskis wrote:
Hello,
I think one of best ways to teach programming is with examples (of
course with a bit of theory explanation).
I'd like to test my students' general ability to undersnand examples.
Because I am confused, is it my fault or their laziness, or sth else,
that some of them (nearly 30%) understnand nearly nothig what they were taught.
Main question of email:
Does anyone know freely distributable DB of such IQ quiz questions --
preferrably mostly graphical, like
http://iq-test.co.uk/iq-test/ or so
I think it could come in handy for others (mathematics here as well)...
I also hope, one can train the attention/concentration with IQ tests
-- which is verty important skill in understanding examples.
Thanks in advance
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