Further Evaluations of Industry-Inspired Pair Programming Communication Guidelines with Undergraduate Students

Zarb, Mark; Hughes, Janet; Richards, John T.

doi:10.1145/2676723.2677241

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“…Allotting extra time to pair programming activities, as well as providing feedback on collaboration from prior sessions, may help mitigate this concern [17]. Formally introducing pair programming best practices to students prior to a collaborative task has also been shown to improve the quality of the collaboration, encouraging communication and active contribution from both partners [22].…”

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“…Collaboration has emerged as a central component of many computationally intense jobs and is now a component of many computer science curricula [1]. Pair programming offers a structured form of collaboration for computer science learning that has been successfully used in a wide variety of K-12 and postsecondary computer science courses [9,16,21,22].…”

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Exploring the Pair Programming Process

Rodríguez

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Boyer

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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Pair programming is a collaboration paradigm that has been increasingly adopted in computer science education. Research has established that pair programming can hold benefits for students' learning and attitudes, but comparatively little is known about the ways in which the collaborative process benefits students' CS learning. This paper examines the collaboration process, comparing important outcomes with how students' dialogue and problem-solving approaches unfolded. The results show that the collaboration is more effective when both partners make substantive dialogue contributions, express uncertainty, and resolve it. In particular, driver dialogue expressivity is associated with improved outcomes. The findings provide insight into the ways in which pair programming dialogue benefits student learning during CS problem solving.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Exploring the Pair Programming Process

Rodríguez

Price

Boyer

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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“…Falmouth University and Robert Gordon University, together, have been exploring solutions to these challenges. While conducting previous research [7,12,8], the authors observed that students seemed to engage in peer support more readily, and were less intimidated by logic errors, when programming robots. Such activity seemed to evoke a sense of mastery, belonging, and agency, in line with building motivation according to self-determination theory [1].…”

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Laughter over Dread

Zarb

Scott

2019

Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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Software development companies want new hires with strong interpersonal and problem solving skills. To ensure the development of such skills, they must be embedded throughout the curriculum.However, many students struggle to collaborate with peers and in self-regulated practice during the early stages of their course. Explicit scaffolding can, however, motivate such engagement. This tips and techniques session shows how an ice-breaker using LEGO EV3 robots at two UK institutions enhanced peer interaction and increased self-regulated practice over the first four weeks of 2016-17 and 2017-18.

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