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Teaching And Assessing Programming Fundamentals For Non Majors With Visual Programming, William Honig
Teaching And Assessing Programming Fundamentals For Non Majors With Visual Programming, William Honig
William L Honig
Visual programming tools and mobile device applications are a natural tool to engage university students; but, are they effective in teaching quantitative thinking skills to non computer science majors? Answering this question can be based on careful assessment of the learning outcomes. This paper reports the results from teaching over 100 students mobile app development with App Inventor in a university core course. Results were measured using an assessment process motivated by Bloom's Taxonomy that included student self assessment, ratings by instructors, and comparisons of the two results. The categories in the assessment were mapped to specific levels of skills …