Further Evaluations of a Didactic CPU Visual Simulator (CPUVSIM)
Renato Cortinovis, Tamer Mohamed Abdellatif, Devender Goyal, Luiz, Fernando Capretz

TL;DR
This paper presents further evaluations of the CPUVSIM, an educational CPU visual simulator, demonstrating its effectiveness across diverse settings and informing future, more comprehensive assessments.
Contribution
It provides additional empirical evidence of CPUVSIM's educational effectiveness and discusses plans for a larger, quantitative evaluation in different educational contexts.
Findings
High appreciation of CPUVSIM in Singapore pilot study
Confirmation of the tool's effectiveness for novices
Identification of challenges to inform future evaluations
Abstract
This paper discusses further evaluations of the educational effectiveness of an existing CPU visual simulator (CPUVSIM). The CPUVSIM, as an Open Educational Resource, has been iteratively improved over a number of years following an Open Pedagogy approach, and was designed to enhance novices understanding of computer operation and mapping from high-level code to assembly language. The literature reports previous evaluations of the simulator, at K12 and undergraduate level, conducted from the perspectives of both developers and students, albeit with a limited sample size and primarily through qualitative methods. This paper describes additional evaluation activities designed to provide a more comprehensive assessment, across diverse educational settings: an action research pilot study recently carried out in Singapore and the planning of a more quantitative-oriented study in Dubai, with…
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TopicsExperimental Learning in Engineering
