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Comment author: fubarobfusco 30 June 2013 10:28:58AM *  2 points [-]

Reading a little further ...

We now report that after six experiments, involving more than 500 students at six institutions in three countries, the predictive effect of our test has failed to live up to that early promise.

Comment author: Dreaded_Anomaly 30 June 2013 07:27:25PM 2 points [-]

And reading a little further than that...

The test does not very accurately predict levels of performance, but by combining the result of six replications of the experiment, five in UK and one in Australia. We show that consistency does have a strong e ffect on success in early learning to program but background programming experience, on the other hand, has little or no effect.

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