Monitoring Novice Programmer Affect and Behaviors to Identify Learning Bottlenecks

• Main Authors: Rodrigo, Ma. Mercedes T, Sugay, Jessica, Baker, Ryan S, Tabanao, Emily S
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2009
• Subjects: Novice Programmers; Affect; Achievement; Computer Sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/discs-faculty-pubs/123; https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/249a/0f0394c4e703b9e905606b2e3f0a7cc74a34.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

We analyze student affect data in order to locate bottlenecks in an introductory programming course. By tracking students’ affective states and behaviors over five laboratory sessions distributed over nine weeks, we find that students exhibit a significantly greater amount of confusion when expected...