Bergin, Susan and Reilly, Ronan (2005) Programming: Factors that Influence Success. In: SIGCSE '05 Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education. ACM, pp. 411-415. ISBN 1581139977

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This paper documents a study, carried out in the academic year 2003-2004, on fifteen factors that may influence performance on a first year object-oriented programming module. The factors included prior academic experience, prior computer experience, self-perception of programming performance and comfort level on the module and specific cognitive skills. The study found that a student's perception of their understanding of the module had the strongest correlation with programming performance, r=0.76, p‹0.01. In addition, Leaving Certificate (LC) mathematics and science scores were shown to have a strong correlation with performance. A regression module, based upon a student's perception of their understanding of the module, gender, LC mathematics score and comfort level was able to account for 79% of the variance in programming performance results.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	CS1; Programming; Predictors; computer science education;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science
Item ID:	8209
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1145/1047344.1047480
Depositing User:	Prof. Ronan Reilly
Date Deposited:	15 May 2017 14:46
Publisher:	ACM
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://dl.acm.org
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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