Testing the Effectiveness of the Leopard Tutor under Experimental Conditions
R.H. Kemp, E. G. Todd, Rosemary Krsinich · 2005
The Leopard Tutor is a piece of software that has been developed to help students learn OO programming. In order to test its effectiveness we ran a course for novice programmers on Java. The participants had a similar background, with little or no knowledge of the language. Half the group used the Leopard Tutor to help them understand the basic concepts and the other half were taught in a traditional manner. In a four hour test administered at the end of the course, the group who had used the Leopard Tutor performed significantly better than the control group.