Title
A web-based programming learning environment to support cognitive development
Abstract
Web-based programming has become a popular and vital issue in recent years. The rapid growth of various applications not only demonstrates the importance of web-based programming, but also reveals the difficulty of training relevant skills. The difficulty is owing to the lack of facilities such as online coding, debugging and peer help to assist the students in promoting their cognitive development in web-based programming. To cope with these problems, in this paper, a web-based programming assisted system, ''WPAS'', is proposed, which is able to support five programming activities with various difficulty levels of cognition based on Bloom's cognitive taxonomy. WPAS provides online coding, debugging and annotation tools to conduct the training and peer assessment for web-based programming. Experimental results of 47 undergraduate students show that the innovative approach is helpful to the students in improving their cognitive development in Web-based programming. In addition, according to the results of the questionnaire, most of the participants perceived the ease of use and usefulness of the proposed system. Therefore, this study suggests that teachers could design Web-based programming activities supported by the WPAS system to improve students' cognitive development in web-based programming.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.intcom.2008.07.002
Interacting with Computers
Keywords
Field
DocType
various application,various difficulty level,teaching/learning strategies,cognitive development,cognitive taxonomy,web-based programming,proposed system,digital learning environment,wpas system,web-based programming activity,online coding,programming activity,ease of use,peer assessment
Annotation,Peer assessment,Computer science,Usability,Coding (social sciences),Human–computer interaction,Web application,Cognition,Multimedia,Cognitive development,Debugging
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
20
6
Interacting with Computers
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
32
1.75
11
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wu-Yuin Hwang142649.04
Chin-Yu Wang21087.35
Gwo-Jen Hwang33399217.05
Yueh-Min Huang42455278.09
Susan Huang5321.75