Educational data mining and learning analytics promise better understanding of student
behavior and knowledge, as well as new information on the tacit factors that contribute to …

High attrition and dropout rates are common in introductory programming courses. One of
the reasons students drop out is loss of motivation due to the lack of feedback and proper …

The methodology of eye tracking has been gradually making its way into various fields of
science, assisted by the diminishing cost of the associated technology. In an international …

Creative coding is a rapidly expanding domain for both artistic expression and
computational education. Numerous libraries and IDEs support creative coding, however …

We present quantitative analyses performed on character-level program edit and execution
data, collected in a junior-level data structures and algorithms course. The goal of this …

The software development process often follows a circuitous path, littered with mistakes and
backtracks. This is particularly true for novice programmers, who typically navigate through a …

While computing educators have put plenty of effort into researching and developing
programming environments that make it easier for students to create their first programs …

A key determinant of success for novice programmers is the extent to which they practice
writing code. In a typical introductory programming course, students are given numerous …

Systems that record students' programming process have become increasingly popular
during the last decade. The granularity of stored data varies across these systems and …

A speaker verification system using connected word verification phrases has been
implemented and studied. Verification utterances are represented as concatenated speaker …