Can students help themselves? An investigation of students’ feedback on the quality of the source code

Andrade, R. de; Brunet, João

doi:10.1109/fie.2018.8658503

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“…In general, source code quality analysis is an interesting venue to improve student performance [3]. While learning the programming language fundamentals it is not unusual for the students to overtly rely on the structures and patterns they know [28], because they do not possess the experience to understand when their solutions are overtly complex, approach the problem from the wrong direction, or simply start to pick up detrimental programming habits [22].…”

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confidence: 99%

ASPA: A Static Analyser to Support Learning and Continuous Feedback on Programming Courses. An Empirical Validation

Luukkainen

Kasurinen

Nikula

et al. 2022

2022 IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET)

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For decades there have been arguments how to teach programming in the basic courses. Supportive intervention methods to improve students' learning and methods to improve assessment process have been widely studied. There are various successful methods to each topic separately, but only a few of them fit for both. In this work, we aimed at validating ASPA a static analyser tool that supports learning and continuous feedback on programming courses. For this purpose, we designed and conduct an empirical study among 236 students enrolled in the basic programming course, that voluntary adopted the tools during the project development activities. We first profiled the students, then, evaluated the attitude toward using ASPA, the perceived ease of use, and the perceived usefulness. Results showed that ASPA is a good helper for the entire course and especially the student's programming assignments, and it also helps to improve the students' grades.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%