The impact of pair programming on students logical thinking : a case study on higher academic institution / Mahfudzah Othman … [et al.]
Pair Programming (PP) is a well-known agile software development technique that has been widely implemented in programming classes. Through PP, students are able to share knowledge and expertise that will contribute to better programming solutions. Nevertheless, how PP can help to improve students’...
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| author | Othman, Mahfudzah Rosmani, Arifah Fasha Mohd Fauzi, Shukor Sanim Mazlan, Umi Hanim |
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| description | Pair Programming (PP) is a well-known agile software development technique that has been widely implemented in programming classes. Through PP, students are able to share knowledge and expertise that will contribute to better programming solutions. Nevertheless, how PP can help to improve students’ cognitive abilities has yet to be explored. Therefore, this study’s aim was to investigate the impacts of implementing Pair Programming (PP) on students’ logical thinking. Logical thinking is part of the cognitive ability claimed to be one of the crucial factors that determine the success or failure of novice programmers. To achieve this, 60 students who enrolled in Diploma in Computer Science programme in Universiti Teknologi MARA Perlis Branch, Malaysia, were asked to take the pre-test and post-test of Group Assessment Logical Thinking (GALT) Test in the beginning and at the end of the semester. These students were divided into two main groups; Control and Test in the Test Group, students with low logical ability will be paired with their high logical thinking friends. Meanwhile, in the Control Group, no pair programming or collaborative technique took place. Five programming tasks were assigned to both groups to solve either collaboratively or individually. The results obtained via paired sample t-tests statistical analysis shows significant improvements in students’ logical thinking with p-value <0.05 in the Test Group |
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| spelling | uitm-300312020-04-15T05:16:58Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/30031/ The impact of pair programming on students logical thinking : a case study on higher academic institution / Mahfudzah Othman … [et al.] smrj Othman, Mahfudzah Rosmani, Arifah Fasha Mohd Fauzi, Shukor Sanim Mazlan, Umi Hanim Programming. Rule-based programming. Backtrack programming Expert systems (Computer science). Fuzzy expert systems Operating systems (Computers) Interactive computer systems Pair Programming (PP) is a well-known agile software development technique that has been widely implemented in programming classes. Through PP, students are able to share knowledge and expertise that will contribute to better programming solutions. Nevertheless, how PP can help to improve students’ cognitive abilities has yet to be explored. Therefore, this study’s aim was to investigate the impacts of implementing Pair Programming (PP) on students’ logical thinking. Logical thinking is part of the cognitive ability claimed to be one of the crucial factors that determine the success or failure of novice programmers. To achieve this, 60 students who enrolled in Diploma in Computer Science programme in Universiti Teknologi MARA Perlis Branch, Malaysia, were asked to take the pre-test and post-test of Group Assessment Logical Thinking (GALT) Test in the beginning and at the end of the semester. These students were divided into two main groups; Control and Test in the Test Group, students with low logical ability will be paired with their high logical thinking friends. Meanwhile, in the Control Group, no pair programming or collaborative technique took place. Five programming tasks were assigned to both groups to solve either collaboratively or individually. The results obtained via paired sample t-tests statistical analysis shows significant improvements in students’ logical thinking with p-value <0.05 in the Test Group Penerbit UiTM (UiTM Press) 2019 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/30031/1/30031.pdf Othman, Mahfudzah and Rosmani, Arifah Fasha and Mohd Fauzi, Shukor Sanim and Mazlan, Umi Hanim (2019) The impact of pair programming on students logical thinking : a case study on higher academic institution / Mahfudzah Othman … [et al.]. (2019) Social and Management Research Journal (SMRJ) <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Social_and_Management_Research_Journal_=28SMRJ=29.html>, 16 (1). pp. 85-98. ISSN 0128-1089 https://smrj.uitm.edu.my/ https://doi.org/10.24191/smrj.v16i1.6085 https://doi.org/10.24191/smrj.v16i1.6085 |
| spellingShingle | Programming. Rule-based programming. Backtrack programming Expert systems (Computer science). Fuzzy expert systems Operating systems (Computers) Interactive computer systems Othman, Mahfudzah Rosmani, Arifah Fasha Mohd Fauzi, Shukor Sanim Mazlan, Umi Hanim The impact of pair programming on students logical thinking : a case study on higher academic institution / Mahfudzah Othman … [et al.] |
| title | The impact of pair programming on students logical thinking : a case study on higher academic institution / Mahfudzah Othman … [et al.] |
| title_full | The impact of pair programming on students logical thinking : a case study on higher academic institution / Mahfudzah Othman … [et al.] |
| title_fullStr | The impact of pair programming on students logical thinking : a case study on higher academic institution / Mahfudzah Othman … [et al.] |
| title_full_unstemmed | The impact of pair programming on students logical thinking : a case study on higher academic institution / Mahfudzah Othman … [et al.] |
| title_short | The impact of pair programming on students logical thinking : a case study on higher academic institution / Mahfudzah Othman … [et al.] |
| title_sort | impact of pair programming on students logical thinking : a case study on higher academic institution / mahfudzah othman … [et al.] |
| topic | Programming. Rule-based programming. Backtrack programming Expert systems (Computer science). Fuzzy expert systems Operating systems (Computers) Interactive computer systems |
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