On the number of attempts students made on some online programming exercises during semester and their subsequent performance on final exam questions

Alireza Ahadi; Raymond Lister; Arto Vihavainen

doi:10.1145/2899415.2899452

On the number of attempts students made on some online programming exercises during semester and their subsequent performance on final exam questions

Alireza Ahadi, Raymond Lister, Arto Vihavainen

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This paper explores the relationship between student performance on online programming exercises completed during semester with subsequent student performance on a final exam. We introduce an approach that combines whether or not a student produced a correct solution to an online exercise with information on the number of attempts at the exercise submitted by the student. We use data collected from students in an introductory Java course to assess the value of this approach. We compare the approach that utilizes the number of attempts to an approach that simply considers whether or not a student produced a correct solution to each exercise. We found that the results for the method that utilizes the number of attempts correlates better with performance on a final exam.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ITiCSE 2016
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	218-223
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450342315
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2899415.2899452
Publication status	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2016 - Arequipa, Peru Duration: 11 Jul 2016 → 13 Jul 2016

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Conference	2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2016
Country/Territory	Peru
City	Arequipa
Period	11/07/16 → 13/07/16

Keywords

educational data mining
learning analytics
programming

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Ahadi, A., Lister, R., & Vihavainen, A. (2016). On the number of attempts students made on some online programming exercises during semester and their subsequent performance on final exam questions. In ITiCSE 2016: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (pp. 218-223). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2899415.2899452

Ahadi, Alireza ; Lister, Raymond ; Vihavainen, Arto. / On the number of attempts students made on some online programming exercises during semester and their subsequent performance on final exam questions. ITiCSE 2016: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. pp. 218-223

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On the number of attempts students made on some online programming exercises during semester and their subsequent performance on final exam questions. / Ahadi, Alireza; Lister, Raymond; Vihavainen, Arto.
ITiCSE 2016: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. p. 218-223.

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Ahadi A, Lister R, Vihavainen A. On the number of attempts students made on some online programming exercises during semester and their subsequent performance on final exam questions. In ITiCSE 2016: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. 2016. p. 218-223 doi: 10.1145/2899415.2899452

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