プログラムの制御構造とそのイメージ形成について

Abstract

We suggest a method of measuring programming capability. On learning programming, the students make the skill of programming to their mind as the abstractly image of them. Then, we can take the their capability by measuring a imagening capability. The method is composed two kinds of test. The first is : To the students, showing a fragment of source code, let them select the image figure corresponding to it (saying image test). The second is : Let them trace a fragment of source code and answer the result of the effect of tracing (saying trace test). The latter is the same of ordinary achievement test. Here, the students have just finished the step of elementary control structure. We did the tests for the different two groups of students. As the result, the correlation between the both test was enough strong. This shows that the image test is effective to measure the capability of programming.