Author(s): Tavares, Paula Correia ; Henriques, Pedro Rangel ; Gomes, Elsa
Date: 2016
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/10026
Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
Subject(s): Programming; Learning; Students; Animation; Automatic Evaluation; Feedback
One of the main reasons that justify the student’s failure in (introductory) programming courses is the lack of motivation that impacts on the knowledge acquisition process, affecting learning results. As soon as students face the difficulties concerning the development of algorithms or the coding in a programming language, they give up and do not try harder to solve other problems; they think it is a demanding activity and feel frustrated. In this paper we describe in detail an experiment conducted to verify the effectiveness, in terms of the increase in motivation and in knowledge acquisition, of combining program Animation tools with the immediate feedback provided by Automatic Evaluations Systems.
