Assessing Software Design Skills and their Relation with Reasoning Skills

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  • Dave R. Stikkolorum
  • Claire Stevenson
  • Michel R. V. Chaudron
چکیده

Lecturers see students struggle learning software design. In order to create educational interventions it is needed to know which (abstract) reasoning skills are related to students’ software design performance. We introduce an online software design skills test for measuring students’ software design skills. Two student groups of two different European universities participated in an experiment in where we were able to relate students’ visual and verbal reasoning skills to students’ software design skills and measured learning improvement. In the future proper interventions can be chosen while using the test as a diagnostic tool.

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تاریخ انتشار 2013