Facilitating Students' Reasoning with Causal Explanations and Visual Representations
Brian J. Reiser, Michael Andrew Ranney, Marsha C. Lovett, Daniel Y. Kimberg · 1989
Continue on reverse if ecessary and identify by block number) > This article reportsa study of students learning to program using GIL, the 'Graphical Instruction in LISP" intelfigent tutoring system.GIL is designed to explore the construction of explanations from problem solviig knowledge, and the use of visual representations in problem solving.We first present a brief overview of GIL, then -describe the analyses of students learning to solve simple programming problems using GIL.Our init-ial data address two questions: 1) Are the explanations provided by GIL effective in guiding student reasoning?, and 2) Are students able to learn to program using graphical representationv (i.e.what benefits are provided by this representation of programming?)!--" J 16. Supplementary Notation (continued) students' reasoning with causal explanations and visual representation.in D.