Meta-analysis of the effect of consistency on success
in early learning of programming is our fourth paper
that was presented to Psychology Programming Interested
Group (PPIG) Annual workshop on July 2009.
Abstract: ... The test does not very accurately predict
levels of performance, but by combining the
result of six replications of the experiment,
five in UK and one in Australia. We show
that consistency does have a strong effect
on success in early learning to program but
background programming experience, on the
other hand, has little or no effect.
In short, the jury is still out, but there is some sort of effect showing up, and it's going to need careful experiments to find out what's really going on. It does seem to show promise, though, of finding a predictive effect.
In short, the jury is still out, but there is some sort of effect showing up, and it's going to need careful experiments to find out what's really going on. It does seem to show promise, though, of finding a predictive effect.