Bergin, Susan and Reilly, Ronan (2005) The influence of motivation and comfort-level on learning to program. In: Proceedings of the 17th Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group, PPIG 05. University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, June 2005. Psychology of Programming Interest Group, pp. 293-304.

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This paper documents a study, carried out in the academic year 2004-2005, on the role of motivation and comfort-level in a first year object-oriented programming module. The study found that intrinsic motivation had a strong correlation with programming performance as did self-efficacy for learning and performance, r=0.512, p < 0.01 and r=0.567, p < 0.01 respectively. Aspects of comfort level were found to have significant correlations with performance with an instrument on programming-esteem rendering the most interesting results. A regression model based upon these factors was able to account for 60% of the variance in programming performance results.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	motivation; comfort-level; learning to program; first year object-oriented programming module;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science
Item ID:	8685
Depositing User:	Dr. Susan Bergin
Date Deposited:	25 Aug 2017 11:09
Publisher:	Psychology of Programming Interest Group
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://www.ppig.org/workshops
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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