When Does Scaffolding Provide Too Much Assistance? A Code-Tracing Tutor Investigation

When students are first learning to program, they not only have to learn to write programs, but also how to trace them. Code tracing involves stepping through a program step-by-step, which helps to predict the output of the program and identify bugs. Students routinely struggle with this activity, a...

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Published in:	International journal of artificial intelligence in education Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 784 - 819
Main Authors:	Jennings, Jay, Muldner, Kasia
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York Springer New York 01.12.2021 Springer Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	A festschrift in honour of Jim Greer Artificial Intelligence Coding Cognitive Psychology Community Relations Computer Science Computer Science Education Computers Computers and Education Data collection Educational Environment Educational Technology Graduate Students Individual Differences Individualized Instruction Learning Memory Multilayers Novices Problem Solving Programming Programming Languages Python Scaffolding Scaffolding (Teaching Technique) Short Term Memory Skills Students Subgroups Syntax Teaching Teaching Methods Thinking Skills Tracing Troubleshooting Tutoring Tutors Unsupervised learning User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction Writing Instruction Code tracing Worked examples Programming instruction Tutoring system Assistance
ISSN:	1560-4292, 1560-4306
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