Reginamary Matthews

• PhD
• University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus

This study explored the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the academic quality of a Foundation in Engineering programme. A Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) was administered before and during the pandemic to evaluate the six dimensions of academic quality – assessment, workload, teaching, academic environment, standards, and skills development...

Learning programming in an example-based learning condition is beneficial to learners with low prior knowledge. This study explored digital worked example (DWE) with an instructional explanation to promote completion strategy and faded worked example (FWE) using screencast technology to promote self-explanation activity. Digital worked example (DWE...

Learning to write computer program for the first time is tough. The predominant focus on Multimedia Learning Object (MLO) is to explore the effectiveness in developing novice learners program writing skills. MLO is a small piece of information incorporated with media elements and interactivity to accomplish a single learning outcome. Three types of...

Computer programming learning requires declarative and procedural knowledge. Novice learners acquire programming declarative knowledge via lectures, tutorials, and self-assessment. Cognitive overload within programming learning materials is one of several learning barriers. Self-assessing is important to assist learners to identify misconceptions a...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of review question and content object as advanced organizer used for prior knowledge activation in an introductory computer programming. The students’ engagement when using the strategies was examined to reach the primary findings. Content object (CO) as the advanced organizer to activate pr...

Learning Object (LO) is the breakdown of larger content into smaller pieces of information that accomplishes a single learning outcome. The smaller piece of content is incorporated with multimedia elements to promote meaningful learning. The prevailing focus on learning objects for introductory programming promising in terms of enhancing the progra...

This paper intends to address design issues identified from the evaluation outcome of several types of Learning Object (LO) used in a C programming lab. LO is a small, independent and reusable learning unit that accomplishes a single learning outcome. Due to the size, it is also called as micro learning object. It is also possible, to aggregate sev...

This paper describes the outcome of an evaluation conducted on programming learning objects integrated in an actual lab setting. Learners' experience in using the learning objects is essential to identify design pitfalls and the issues that facilitate or impede learning. The evaluation criterion include: the success of learning objects in the learn...

In this study, concept map has been used as the evaluation tool to explore students' cognitive understanding in computer learning. Computer literacy regarded as important prior knowledge and skills novice programming students must acquire in order to learn to program. First semester foundation students take a 10-credit core IT module (IT and Design...

Programming is taught as foundation module at the beginning of undergraduate studies and/or during foundation year. Learning introductory programming languages such as Pascal, Basic / C (procedural) and C++ / Java (object oriented) requires learners to understand the underlying programming paradigm, syntax, logic and the structure. Learning to prog...