Exploratory Analysis of Discourses between Students Engaged in a Debugging Task

Exploratory Analysis of Discourses between Students Engaged in a Debugging Task

This paper determined if and how high-performing and low-performing students differed in the language that they used as they collaborated on a debugging task. 180 students worked in pairs to debug 12 small programs with known errors. Students were segregated into high and low achievement levels base...

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Main Author: Rodrigo, Ma. Mercedes T.
Format: text
Published: Archīum Ateneo 2017
Subjects:
discourse analysis
pair programming
LIWC
Computer Sciences
Databases and Information Systems
Education
Programming Languages and Compilers
Online Access:https://archium.ateneo.edu/discs-faculty-pubs/321
https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1322&context=discs-faculty-pubs
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Institution: Ateneo De Manila University
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Summary:This paper determined if and how high-performing and low-performing students differed in the language that they used as they collaborated on a debugging task. 180 students worked in pairs to debug 12 small programs with known errors. Students were segregated into high and low achievement levels based on the number of bugs they found. Chat transcripts from the pairs were analyzed using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software. We found that high- and low-performing students only varied in terms of their use of words that implied discrepancy and sadness.

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