Matthew Stephen Zahn

College of Engineering

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Updated: August 30th, 2024 05:02

2023 article

Assessment of Self-Identified Learning Struggles in CS2 Programming Assignments

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2023 CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION, ITICSE 2023, VOL 1, pp. 264–270.

By: M. Zahn n, I. Gransbury n, S. Heckman n  & L. Battestilli n 

author keywords: CS2; CS Education Research; Self-Regulated Learning
TL;DR: Through coding and analysis, it is found that while a majority of students encounter struggles with time management and debugging of failing tests, students tend to emphasize wanting to improve their time management skills in future coding assignments. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: July 1, 2023

2022 article

Observations on Student Help-Seeking Behaviors in Introductory Computer Science Courses

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 54TH ACM TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION, VOL 2, SIGCSE 2023, pp. 1380–1380.

By: M. Zahn n & S. Heckman n 

TL;DR: Observations in investigating student behavior when using course resources, including office hours and online discussion forums, in two introductory computer science courses show that there are no well-defined personas that emerge from the grouping of help-seeking behaviors. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: July 13, 2023

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