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A relevant concern of Java programming and mathematics instructors is that first-year college students usually have difficulties in grasping the abstract concepts of these two disciplines. Consequently, a meaningful part of students may fail to pass their core exams in BIT, Business Information Technology. To overcome this issue, two maths and programming instructors and a researcher in psychology of education, implemented the so-called exploratory video-based instructional intervention, through which BIT students were asked to explain specific Java programming concepts and to describe how to solve three maths exercises using self-produced videos. From a diagnostic perspective, the instructors were able: a) to recognise the correctness of the syntactic knowledge, the conceptual knowledge and the strategic knowledge of Java programming and b) to distinguish whether students were correctly applying the foundations of mathematics, which are essential skills for becoming a good programmer. The results of this experimental study showed that first-year students appreciated the production of these self-explaining videos, resulting in mastering complex abstract concepts in mathematics and in programming.
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Inglese, T., Fässler, L.E., Christen, P. (2022). “I Show You How I Solved It!”. In: Wang, SH., Zhang, YD. (eds) Multimedia Technology and Enhanced Learning. ICMTEL 2022. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 446. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18123-8_20
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