The effects of pair-programming on individual programming skill

Braught, Grant; Eby, L. Martin; Wahls, Tim

doi:10.1145/1352322.1352207

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“…The students switch over being driver and navigator throughout the assignment. Pair programming has been effectively used in the classroom [15] and is an effective way to encourage students to engage in confident practice while learning and consequently doing better in their programming. [16] Coding Dojos [17] harken back to something like the masterapprentice model to support acculturation.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

The abstraction transition taxonomy

Cutts

Esper

Fecho

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the Ninth Annual International Conference on International Computing Education Research

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The abstraction transition taxonomy: developing desired learning outcomes through the lens of situated cognition. In: Clear, A., Sanders, K. {sesper, srfoster, mfecho, bsimon}@cs.ucsd.edu ABSTRACTWe report on a post-hoc analysis of introductory programming lecture materials. The purpose of this analysis is to identify what knowledge and skills we are asking students to acquire, as situated in the activity, tools, and culture of what programmers do and how they think. The specific materials analyzed are the 133 Peer Instruction questions used in lecture to support cognitive apprenticeship -honoring the situated nature of knowledge. We propose an Abstraction Transition Taxonomy for classifying the kinds of knowing and practices we engage students in as we seek to apprentice them into the programming world. We find students are asked to answer questions expressed using three levels of abstraction: English, CS Speak, and Code. Moreover, many questions involve asking students to transition between levels of abstraction within the context of a computational problem. Finally, by applying our taxonomy in classifying a range of introductory programming exams, we find that summative assessments (including our own) tend to emphasize a small range of the skills fostered in students during the formative/apprenticeship phase.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

The abstraction transition taxonomy

Cutts

Esper

Fecho

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the Ninth Annual International Conference on International Computing Education Research

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“…This activity needs the students have to interact closely with each other [18]. In such circumstance, pairing the students plays a major role for the effective learning [4], [10]. The student's choice of pair partner depends on many social factors such as the personality [16], [32], academic achievement [15], gender, and mother tongue of the other partner.…”

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Student's Opinion on Adopting Pair Programming as a Teaching and Learning Tool

Radhakrishnan¹,

Kanmani²

2012

IJCA

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Research in the realm of Pair Programming in computer science students has begun to explore the methods for accomplishing the benefits. However, valid measurements of the opinion on adopting a pair programming in the practical sessions are required to be drawn, before concluding. An Attitude Survey Test (AST) was conducted before implementing Pair Programming as a teaching and learning tool among computer science students in Pondicherry Engineering College. The purpose of this investigation is to examine the student's opinion on four vital issues viz. i) General Perception about pair programming; ii) Personality conflicts among pair; iii) Relevant examination system and iv) Female student's attitude. We have engaged 154 B. Tech and MCA students as participants from Pondicherry Engineering College, for the AST, each answered a set of questions relating to Pair Programming. By accurately assessing the students' opinions, our AST results indicated the adequate convergent validity of scores obtained, that there is a room for implementing pair programming as a teaching and learning tool in laboratory course works.

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“…It is a well-known pedagogical technique for teaching introductory programming. Studies have shown that students who pair program produce higher quality code [11], show greater confidence in their solutions [6,14], are more likely to pass their programming courses [2,14,15], and are more likely to persist in the major [4,14] than solo programmers. Pair programming is also thought to be particularly beneficial for women students because it dispels perceptions that programming is a competitive, socially isolating activity [22].…”

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Pair debugging

Murphy

Fitzgerald

Hanks

et al. 2010

Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Computing Education Research

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Previous research on the interaction between pairs suggests there is a positive relationship between transactive discussion and effective problem solving. Debugging is particularly problematic for novice programmers. Some previous studies suggest this difficulty may be lessened by working in pairs. Using transactive analysis, we examined interactions between five pairs of university-level introductory programming students as they debugged Java programs.Transcriptions of their verbal interactions were coded into transactive statement categories which revealed that the nature of participants' discourse varied. Extensions, feedback requests, critiques and completions were the most frequently observed types of transactions. Other transaction types were rarely detected in this context. The amount of discussion for the pairs varied as did the number of transactive statements. Results suggest that pairs who talked more and used completion transactions more often attempted more problems, but those who critiqued more frequently successfully debugged more problems. The teaching implications of this work and recommendations for future research are discussed.

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The effects of pair-programming on individual programming skill

Cited by 30 publications

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The abstraction transition taxonomy

The abstraction transition taxonomy

Student's Opinion on Adopting Pair Programming as a Teaching and Learning Tool

Pair debugging

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