Scaffolded task progression shifts novice reasoning from local completion toward diagnosis and systematic debugging as task demands increase¶
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q2 i? Students moved from trial-and-check completion on introductory tasks to inspecting programs for specific faults on intermediate tasks and externalized planning on advanced tasks. → Leyi Li 2026
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Leyi Li 2026¶
Leyi Li, Chenyu Du, Jiafei Sun, Erick Purwanto, and Qing Zhang. (2026). RoboBlockly Studio: Conversational Block Programming with Embodied Robot Feedback for Computational Thinking. Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '26). https://doi.org/10.1145/3800645.3813071
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Thematic analysis of interviews and video recordings across the three task types: behavior "changed from "completing" to "diagnosing"", with students pointing to suspicious segments and making small verifiable edits; the stance emerged only after earlier tasks built block literacy.
"As students moved to fixing incorrect blocks (intermediate), their behavior changed from "completing" to "diagnosing. " Students began to inspect programs as artifacts that could contain specific faults and to articulate what might be wrong before editing."
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Scaffolded task progression shifts novice reasoning from local completion toward diagnosis and systematic debugging as task demands increase |
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Scaffolded task progression shifts novice reasoning from local completion toward diagnosis and systematic debugging as task demands increase |
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