Search results for author:"Tom Benton"
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Learning Programming with IPRO: The Effects of a Mobile, Social Programming Environment
Taylor Martin; Matthew Berland; Tom Benton; Carmen Petrick Smith
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 24, No. 3 (July 2013) pp. 301–328
In this paper, we present two studies examining how high school students learn to program in a mobile, social programming environment that we have developed and deployed ("IPRO"). IPRO is delivered, with an associated curriculum, as an iPod Touch...
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Using Learning Analytics to Understand the Learning Pathways of Novice Programmers
Matthew Berland; Taylor Martin; Tom Benton; Carmen Petrick Smith; Don Davis
Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 22, No. 4 (2013) pp. 564–599
Many have suggested that tinkering plays a critical role in novices learning to program, and recent work in learning analytics (Baker & Yacef, 2009 Blikstein, 2011) allows us to describe new relationships in the process. Using learning analytics,...