CS1 Student Grade Prediction: Unconscious Optimism vs Insecurity?

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dc.contributor.authorSobral, Sónia Rolland
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-06T14:32:51Z
dc.date.available2021-07-06T14:32:51Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe difficulties of many students in introductory programming courses and the consequent failure and drop out make it necessary to look for motivation strategies for them to be successful. One of the strategies that is touted in the literature is self-assessment to compromise and motivate students. As we had doubts about the possibility of this strategy, we did an experiment and asked the students to predict the grades of the two tests and the two projects during a semester. Even knowing the correction grid and exercises that involve programming languages, which shows the result to the programmer, we found that the students' forecasts were not very accurate. In the first test we found that the worst students said they were going to get reasonable grades and much better than reality, while the best students thought they had worse grades than they actually had. The other moments of evaluation did not have as severe results, but forecasts continued to be inaccurate. We did tests by gender, by age, for being a freshman or not, for having taken a computer course in high school and for previous knowledge of programming languages: none of these variables proved to be as significant as the students' grades and their corresponding insecurity-fear or optimism-unconscious.pt_PT
dc.identifier.citationSobral, S. R. (2021). CS1 Student Grade Prediction: Unconscious Optimism vs Insecurity? International Journal of Information and Education Technology, 11(8), 387-391. doi: 10.18178/ijiet.2021.11.8.1539. Disponível no Repositório UPT, http://hdl.handle.net/11328/3579pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.18178/ijiet.2021.11.8.1539pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn2010-3689 (Electronic)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11328/3579
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.publisherIJIETpt_PT
dc.relation.ispartofseries;8
dc.rightsopen accesspt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectCS1pt_PT
dc.subjectGrade predictpt_PT
dc.subjectIntroduction to programmingpt_PT
dc.subjectMotivation strategiespt_PT
dc.titleCS1 Student Grade Prediction: Unconscious Optimism vs Insecurity?pt_PT
dc.typejournal articlept_PT
degois.publication.firstPage387pt_PT
degois.publication.lastPage391pt_PT
degois.publication.titleInternational Journal of Information and Education Technologypt_PT
degois.publication.volume11pt_PT
dspace.entity.typePublicationen
person.affiliation.nameREMIT – Research on Economics, Management and Information Technologies
person.familyNameSobral
person.givenNameSónia Rolland
person.identifier.ciencia-idED15-C9EC-5996
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-5041-3597
person.identifier.ridG-2227-2014
person.identifier.scopus-author-id37091626900
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