The Relationship between Programming Proficiency and Attitudes towards Programming
Ronald S. Lemos · The Journal of Data Education · 1980
The relationship between student performance on a COBOL final examination and student attitudes toward programming is analyzed. A sample of 215 undergraduate business majors, enrolled in a required introductory COBOL course, participated in the study. The final examination tested programming proficiency along three dimensions: Grammar, Reading, and Writing. Attitudes were measured at the beginning and end of the course by a 33-item questionnaire.Results showed no significant correlation between final examination scores and initial student attitudes towards programming. However, in the questionnaire responses of students at the end of the course, only one of the seven classes exhibited a highly non-significant correlation coefficient.