The Relationship of Grade Placement to Programming Aptitude and Fortran Programming Achievement
John W. Alspaugh · Journal for Research in Mathematics Education · 1971
This investigation to assess the influence of grade placement upon programming aptitude and FORTRAN programming achievement employed 2 groups of subjects equated on their high school Ohio Psychological Test scores. 1 group consisted of high school juniors and seniors, and the other group contained college juniors and seniors. A t-test revealed a significant difference in the IBM Programmer Aptitude Test scores for the 2 groups. By giving the high school subjects twice as much instruction time as the college students the anticipated difference in programming achievement was considerably reduced.