TY - GEN
T1 - Behaviors of higher and lower performing students in CS1
AU - Liao, Soohyun Nam
AU - Valstar, Sander
AU - Thai, Kevin
AU - Alvarado, Christine
AU - Zingaro, Daniel
AU - Griswold, William G.
AU - Porter, Leo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2019/7/2
Y1 - 2019/7/2
N2 - Although recent work in computing has discovered multiple techniques to identify low-performing students in a course, it is unclear what factors contribute to those students’ difficulties. If we were able to better understand the characteristics of such students, we may be better able to help those students. This work examines the characteristics of low- and high-performing students through interviews with students from an introductory computing class. We identify a number of relevant areas of student behavior including how they approach their exam studies, how they approach completing programming assignments, whether they sought help after identifying misunderstandings, how and from whom they sought help, and how they reflected on assignments after submitting them. Particular behaviors within each area are coded and differences between groups of students are identified.
AB - Although recent work in computing has discovered multiple techniques to identify low-performing students in a course, it is unclear what factors contribute to those students’ difficulties. If we were able to better understand the characteristics of such students, we may be better able to help those students. This work examines the characteristics of low- and high-performing students through interviews with students from an introductory computing class. We identify a number of relevant areas of student behavior including how they approach their exam studies, how they approach completing programming assignments, whether they sought help after identifying misunderstandings, how and from whom they sought help, and how they reflected on assignments after submitting them. Particular behaviors within each area are coded and differences between groups of students are identified.
KW - CS1
KW - Student behaviors
KW - Student interviews
KW - Student performance
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U2 - 10.1145/3304221.3319740
DO - 10.1145/3304221.3319740
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85070923166
T3 - Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE
SP - 196
EP - 202
BT - ITiCSE 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2019 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2019
Y2 - 15 July 2019 through 17 July 2019
ER -