Collaborative Research: Promoting a Growth Mindset Using Automated Feedback

“使用自动反馈促进成长型思维”项目将开发和评估一种新的策略，用于生成编程作业的自动反馈，这将为学生提供更受欢迎的体验，认可他们在解决方案方面所付出的努力。 该项目的目标将是促进采用“成长心态”-一种相信通过实践和努力工作可以提高能力的信念，这与一系列改善的教育成果有关。 该策略将包括四个关键思想：评估学生努力的测量方法;使用非积分奖金来奖励努力并表彰积极强化的努力工作;学生代码的热图，以突出错误所在;以及明确识别学生为了取得进步而需要解决的首要问题的策略。在项目的第一年，所有三所学校都将使用现有的“传统”反馈方法收集基线数据。新的反馈干预措施将在项目的第二年和第三年进行评估。 将收集和分析定量和定性数据，以检查表现和学生行为的变化。 一个混合方法的数据收集计划将三角的定量和定性数据与文献回顾和研究人员在教学这些课程的直接经验，以达到研究的研究问题的结论，并提供了一个可扩展的和可复制的干预设计框架，以提高学生的表现在编程项目。

The "Promoting a Growth Mindset Using Automated Feedback" project will develop and evaluate a new strategy for generating automated feedback on programming assignments that will provide a more welcoming experience for students, recognizing the effort they put in as they work on solutions. The goal of the project will be to promote the adoption of a "growth mindset" - a belief that one's abilities will improve with practice and hard work, which is associated with a range of improved educational outcomes. This strategy will encompass four key ideas: a measurement approach for assessing student effort; the use of non-points-based bonuses to reward effort and recognize hard work for positive reinforcement; heat maps of student code to highlight where bugs are located; and a strategy for clearly identifying the top priority for students to tackle in order to make progress. During the first year of the project, all three schools will collect baseline data using existing "conventional" feedback approaches. The new feedback intervention will be evaluated in years two and three of the project. Quantitative and qualitative data will be collected and analyzed to examine changes in performance and students' behavior. A mixed-method data collection plan will triangulate the quantitative and qualitative data with the review of literature and the researchers' direct experience in teaching these courses to reach conclusions regarding research questions of the study and provide the framework for the design of a scalable and replicable intervention to improve students' performance in the programming projects.