Application of Adjunct Auto-Instruction to Teaching Computer Programming
THE FOLLOWING REPORT is part of one of four divisions of a cooperative research project on "The Effectiveness of Auto-Instruction", and was com pleted during the first semester of 1964-65 at the University of Arizona. The method of adjunct auto-instruction has been developed primarily by Pressey. Several prelimi nary studies were performed by Pressey, and an ex perimental investigation of adjunct auto-instruction was carried out by Pressey and Kinzer (1). In the above experiment subjects were enrolled in the course "Human Growth and Learning" and exer cises were developed around the subject matter in which the students were participating. This study, using the same general principle, was designed to test the efficacy of adjunct auto-instruction where course work of a more factual nature was involved.