Exploring the Relationship between Novice Programmer Confusion and Achievement

• Main Authors: Lee, Diane Marie C, Rodrigo, Ma. Mercedes T, Baker, Ryan S, Sugay, Jessica, Coronel, Andrei
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2011
• Subjects: Confusion; novice programmers; student affect; affective sequences; student achievement; Java; BlueJ; Computer Sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/discs-faculty-pubs/99; https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-24600-5_21
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Using a discovery-with-models approach, we study the relationships between novice Java programmers’ experiences of confusion and their achievement, as measured through their midterm examination scores. Two coders manually labeled samples of student compilation logs with whether they represent a stud...