An Exploration of Teachers’ Perspective About the Learning of Iteration-Control Constructs

• Published in: Informatics in Schools. New Ideas in School Informatics pp. 15 - 27
• Main Authors: Scapin, Emanuele, Mirolo, Claudio
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: High school; Informatics education; Iteration constructs; Novice programmers; Programming learning; Teacher interviews

A number of studies report about students’ difficulties with basic flow-control constructs, and specifically with iteration. Although such issues are less explored in the context of pre-tertiary education, this seems to be especially the case for high-school programming learning, where the difficult...