Information Technology Reference
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Figure 11. Top view = row familiarity interface with input for the displayed row. Bottom
view = row interface with accurate code in all 10 rows for Pass 1. The “Take Test” button
is enabled for row 10
Classroom Applications
The tutor was presented as the first exercise in a seven-week graduate course (Summer,
2001) entitled “Graphical User Interface Systems Using Java.” The three-hour class met twice
each week, and there were 14 class periods in the course. There were 17 graduate students
in Information Systems in the class (eight females, median age = 25.5; nine males, median age
= 28). Prior to using the tutor, each student completed a questionnaire that presented two
rating scales. The first five-point rating scale assessed the student's prior experience with
Java, where the scale anchors were
1 = No experience, I am a novice in Java
to
5 = Extensive
experience, I am an expert in Java
. The second five-point rating scale assessed the student's
confidence in being able to use each of the 21 Java items to write a Java computer program,
