Incidence of Einstellung Effect among Programming Students and its Relationship with Achievement

• Main Authors: Obispo, Jun Rangie C, Castro, Francis Enrique Vicente G, Rodrigo, Ma. Mercedes T
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: Einstellung effect; Experience bias; Computer programming; Computer Sciences; Science and Mathematics Education
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/discs-faculty-pubs/151; https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Incidence-of-Einstellung-Effect-among-Programming-Obispo-Castro/dd3345dcd634dcf5c3060881456d6cfd8ff1c310
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The Einstellung effect (EE) refers to an individual’s bias towards a familiar, working solution when solving problems even though more appropriate solutions are available. Prior studies have shown that this fixation may pose some problems when the known solution can no longer be used because this pr...