Improving Student Computer Programming Understanding and Engagement through Computer-Monitored Problem-Solving Discussions

通过计算机监控的问题解决讨论提高学生对计算机编程的理解和参与度

• 批准号: 1504918
• 负责人: Jung Hee Kim
• 金额: $ 24.85万
• 依托单位: North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-07-15 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1504918&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improving; Student; Computer; Programming; Understanding

The project's significance and importance lie in its focus on addressing both the motivational aspects and conceptual learning barriers for students in early computer programming courses. In these courses the concepts become difficult with many computer science oriented students stalling in their college career. The project will apply modern ideas of group exercises in a highly interactive chat-room environment, where students will be accountable for helping each other and individually accountable for learning. The project's system will record and will then apply text analytics to student group interactions, summarizing for the instructor how well the student groups are functioning both socially and in problem solving. The goals and scope of the project are to develop new collaboration assignments that exercise Java programming language analytic and conceptual skills. At the same time the project will study how students engage with the exercises and how student enthusiasm can be increased. These studies underlie further development of the text classifier technology to monitor for cognitive, affective, and linguistic phenomena that are indicative of enthusiastic students actively discussing and learning. Some measurements, for example, whether the students evince enthusiasm, should be usable in a wide variety of other pedagogical domains. The project will assess how well this intervention succeeds in keeping students motivated, both within individual exercises and in their student careers.

该项目的意义和重要性在于其重点在于解决学生在早期计算机编程课程中的动机方面和概念学习障碍。在这些课程中，随着许多计算机科学方向的学生在他们的大学生涯中停滞不前，概念变得困难。该项目将在一个高度互动的聊天室环境中应用小组练习的现代理念，学生将负责相互帮助，并对个人学习负责。这个项目的系统将记录学生群体的互动，然后将文本分析应用于学生群体的互动，为教师总结学生群体在社交和解决问题方面的运作情况。该项目的目标和范围是开发新的协作任务，以锻炼Java编程语言的分析和概念技能。同时，该项目将研究学生如何参与练习以及如何提高学生的积极性。这些研究为文本分类器技术的进一步发展奠定了基础，以监测表明热情的学生积极讨论和学习的认知、情感和语言现象。一些测量，例如，学生是否表现出热情，应该在各种各样的其他教学领域中可用。该项目将评估这种干预在保持学生积极性方面的成功程度，无论是在个人练习中还是在学生的职业生涯中。

项目成果

Early Experience with Computer-supported Collaborative Exercises for a 2nd Semester Java Class

第二学期 Java 课程计算机支持的协作练习的早期经验

• 发表时间: 2016
• 期刊: Journal of computing sciences in colleges
• 作者: Kim, Jung Hee;Kim, Taehee;Glass, Michael
• 通讯作者: Glass, Michael

Student Understanding and Engagement in a Class Employing COMPS Computer Mediated Problem Solving: A First Look

学生在使用 COMPS 计算机介导问题解决的课堂中的理解和参与：初探

• 发表时间: 2016
• 期刊: CEUR workshop proceedings
• 作者: Kim, Jung Hee;Glass, Michael;Kim, Taehee;Bryant, Kelvin;Willis, Angelica;McNeil, Ebonie;Thomas, Zachery
• 通讯作者: Thomas, Zachery