Authors : Nantaporn Booneka and Paiboon Kiattikomol
Abstract: The objectives of this study relate to logical thinking skills for software developers. It identifies the content and instructional process in developing logical thinking skills and evaluates the content and instructional process. Interviews with twenty participants revealed that the content of logical thinking skills includes general problems, probability problems, arithmetic expressions and arithmetic and logical comparisons. The instructional process of developing logical thinking skills for software developers is comprised of four steps. These include understanding, planning, executing and evaluation. The researchers then asked eighteen experts in logical thinking skills, learning and instruction to evaluate the content of the logical thinking and instructional process. The results showed that the overall evaluation was good (4.28/5), the content evaluation was good (4.21/5) and the instructional process evaluation was good (4.36/5). The results of this study may be of interest to institutes and to instructors who wish to rely on the content and instructional process to develop curriculum focused on logical thinking skills.
Nantaporn Booneka and Paiboon Kiattikomol, 2011. The Effects of the Instructional Process on the Logical Thinking Skills of Software Developers. The Social Sciences, 6: 495-501.