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A Review on the Impact of Cognitive Factors in Introductory Programming

Authors : Amanpreet Kaur, Kuljit Kaur Chahal

Published in: Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Communication, Computing and Electronics Systems

Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore

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Understanding the cognitive factors that contribute to introductory programming students’ abilities to learn to program is critical to helping computer educators create better opportunities for students to improve their programming performance. The goal of this research is to explore cognitive factors that have an influence on programming performance in introductory programming courses in particular. The study documents 17 factors from 25 empirical studies that analyzed the influence of these factors on programming performance. Our analysis shows a wide range of cognitive factors studied and interrelated groups of factors studied in literature focused on introductory programming courses. This is a valuable review of information regarding influencing cognitive factors to restructure aspects of future introductory programming course curricula to benefit students’ ability to learn to program.

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Title: A Review on the Impact of Cognitive Factors in Introductory Programming
Authors: Amanpreet Kaur
Kuljit Kaur Chahal
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Book: Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Communication, Computing and Electronics Systems
Print ISBN: 978-981-19-7752-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-19-7753-4

Copyright Year: 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7753-4_77

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