{"pk":30301,"title":"Childre's Mental Models of Recursive Logo Programs","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Children with a year of Logo programming were asked to think-aloud about the functino of some Logo recursive programs, and then to predict by hand-stimulation of the programs what the graphics turtule will draw when the program is executed. If discrepancies arose, children were asked to explain them. A prevalent but misguided \"looping\" mental model of Logo recursion persisted even in the face of contradictions between program effects and the child's predicitions.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Paper Session #4","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1rx6j961","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"D.","middle_name":"Midian","last_name":"Kurland","name_suffix":"","institution":"Bank Street College","department":""},{"first_name":"Roy","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Pea","name_suffix":"","institution":"Bank Street College","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1983-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30301/galley/20155/download/"}]}