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The Computer Journal 1980 23(4):377-383; doi:10.1093/comjnl/23.4.377
© 1980 by British Computer Society
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Discussion and correspondence

Measuring students' attitudes towards structured walk-throughs

R. S. Lemos *

Department of Business Information Systems, California State University, Los Angeles, USA

The effect of classroom team debugging activities (structured walk-throughs) on student's attitudes towards this process was empirically accessed with a sample of 87 undergraduate Business Administration majors enrolled in an introductory COBOL programming course. For each assigned program, students read and critiqued team members' program listings.

Attitudinal outcomes were measured by a ‘perceived team effectiveness survey’ constructed for the experiment. This survey consisted of positive and negative statements about programming which were measured on a Likert-type scale. Analysis of variance was used to check for the consistency of responses between classes and t-tests were used to test for differences from ‘neutral’ responses. The significantly positive responses on 81.7% of the questionnaire items were found to be consistent between classes. These findings provide empirical support to the assertion that students perceive structured walk-throughs to be an effective pedagogical approach.

Received January 1980.

* Department of Business Information Systems, California State University, Los Angeles, California 90032, USA


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