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Measuring Programming Competence byAssessing Chunk Structures in a Code Transcription Task

Abstract

In a simple transcription task in which sections of Java programcode are copied by freehand writing, it is demonstrated thatchunk related temporal signals are sufficiently robust to permitthe measurement of programming competence. An experimentwith 24 participants revealed that the number of views of thestimulus per trial and the duration of writing per stimulus vieware both strongly correlated with independent measures of Javacompetence.

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