Evaluation of a collaborative instructional framework for programming learning
Luis Miguel Serrano Cámara, Maximiliano Paredes Velasco, J. Ángel Velázquez‐Iturbide · 2012
Our work lies within the collaborative approach to learning CS1. We developed an instructional framework for collaborative learning (named CIF) that is oriented by educational objectives at the analysis level of Bloom's taxonomy. Moreover, the framework is supported by a platform (named MoCAS) of collaborative tools delivered with mobile devices. In this paper an experiment is presented to evaluate the educational effectiveness of CIF and MoCAS vs. three different learning approaches. We selected a topic representative of analysis tasks, namely scope of identifiers. The experiment was conducted with four groups, respectively using a classical lecture format, a collaborative approach, the CIF framework, and CIF plus the MoCAS tool. The experiment obtains statistically significant results, showing enhanced learning with the joint use of CIF and MoCAS.