Prior research indicates that pair programming, whereby two programmers work collaboratively on the same design, algorithm, code, or test, produces higher quality code in essentially half the time taken by solo programmers. An experiment was run at North Carolina to assess the efficacy of pair

tools based on text mining and machine learning techniques are employed to alleviate the loading of the teachers. Experiments were conducted in two introductory-undergraduate programming courses to examine the effectiveness of the proposed diagnosis and assessment tools. The learners ’ work including

ned by their central technological paradigm and by their principle of performance. Following, and adapting to sociology, Christopher Freeman's de nition of a technoeconomic paradigm, I would characterize as a technological paradigm a cluster of inter-related technical, organizational

by Karl Bell The assessment of student code is a necessary part of most programming courses. However, many ways of assessing the correctness of student code can be very time-consuming and may be error-prone. This paper presents JSymTester, a tool which uses the symbolic execution framework

. This study used an adapted form of a public speaking rating scale originally designed for English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts. This paper seeks to evaluate the relationship between this EFL-based scale and assessment within a core US university public speaking course. The relevance of EFL

universities, North Carolina State University and the University of California Santa Cruz, to assess the efficacy of pair programming as an alternative learning technique in introductory programming courses. Students who used the pair programming technique were at least as likely to complete the introductory

are starting to see that research in CS education has its own characteristics and associated challenges. In this white paper, we focus on teaching CS subjects that include the development of programming skills. We highlight the difficulties in traditional approaches to teaching programming courses

that top-down influences also inform perception. For example, context matters. Prior exposure to images of animals or people biases what people see when they view classic ambiguous figures, such as the rat-man and old woman-young woman figures so often featured in introductory psychology textbooks

is becoming increasingly popular in industry and in university curricula. An experiment was run at North Carolina State University over a period of one and a half years to assess the efficacy of pair programming as an alternative educational technique in an introductory programming course. We found

This paper presents an effort to address efficient assessment of less than perfect students ’ solutions in a semi-automated code assessment process. Automated and semi-automated code assessment has its drawbacks when it comes to the poorly written and often non compiling programs created