Chelsea Gordon

Tapping into Student Behavior Insights tool to detect struggle in CS programming assignments

Gabriel Beal, Chi Yan Leung, Joe Mazzone, Chelsea Gordon et autres

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Positive Student Impacts of an Unlimited, Randomized Self-Assessment Quiz Per Chapter: Study Habits, Self-Efficacy, and Learning Outcomes

Anna N. N. Hui, Nkenge Wheatland, Chelsea Gordon, Efthymia Kazakou et autres

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A Powerful Labs Environment for Computer Science Courses

Chi Yan Leung, Joseph Mazzone, Efthymia Kazakou, Chelsea Gordon et autres

Programming assignments are key to any computer science course.In today's digital landscape of education, summative assessments, often called labs, are assigned on a weekly basis to students.The goals of these assessments are often to reinforce and to evaluate mastery of the concepts …

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INCORPORATING LEARNING SCIENCES' BEST PRACTICES INTO STEM COURSEWARE

Chelsea Gordon, Jane Snare, Yamuna Rajasekhar

Appears in: INTED2024 Proceedings Publication year: 2024Pages: 7076-7085ISBN: 978-84-09-59215-9ISSN: 2340-1079doi: 10.21125/inted.2024.1869Conference name: 18th International Technology, Education and Development ConferenceDates: 4-6 March, 2024Location: Valencia, Spain

The Rise of Program Auto-grading in Introductory CS Courses: A Case Study of zyLabs

Chelsea Gordon, Roman Lysecky, Frank Vahid

In recent years, hundreds of college courses have switched how they grade programming assignments, from grading manually and/or using batch scripts, to using commercial cloud-based auto-graders with immediate score feedback to students and the ability to debug and resubmit for a higher …

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Student Engagement with Interactive Engineering Textbook Reading Assignments When Tied to the Grade

Chelsea Gordon, Adrian Rodriguez, Alicia Clark, Bryan Gambrel et autres

Engineering courses have seen a rise in the usage of online textbooks, especially in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the need for classes to be remote.Some of these online textbooks contain learning questions, video media, animations, simulations, 3D tools, and other …

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Programming learners struggle as much in Python as in C++ or Java

Chelsea Gordon, Roman Lysecky, Frank Vahid

Many computer science instructors believe switching college-level introductory programming courses to Python, versus languages like C++, Java, or C, smooths the learning of programming, due in part to Python's syntax, dynamic types, and interpreted execution.Studies providing quantitative support for that belief are …

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Understanding and Promoting Earnest Completion in Online Textbooks

Chelsea Gordon, Frank Vahid, Roman Lysecky

Digital textbooks are becoming more common in college-level computer, engineering, and science courses.For various reasons, some students quickly click on reading activities to earn completion points, without earnestly attempting the activities.We analyzed student earnestness in digital computer science and engineering textbooks across …

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Analyzing the use of auto-graded labs with a built-in simulator to learn assembly programming

Yamuna Rajasekhar, Chelsea Gordon, Chi Yan Leung, Efthymia Kazakou

Analyzing the use of auto-graded labs with a built-in simulator to learn assembly programming

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Impact of Several Low-Effort Cheating-Reduction Methods in a CS1 Class

Frank Vahid, Kelly Downey, Ashley Pang, Chelsea Gordon

Cheating in introductory programming classes (CS1) is a well-known problem. Various methods have been suggested to reduce cheating, but many are time-consuming, resource intensive, or don't scale to large classes. We introduced a class intervention having 6 low-effort commonly-suggested methods to reduce …

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Ultra-Lightweight Early Prediction of At-Risk Students in CS1

Chelsea Gordon, Stanley Zhao, Frank Vahid

Early prediction of students at risk of doing poorly in CS1 can enable early interventions or class adjustments. Preferably, prediction methods would be lightweight, not requiring much extra activity or data-collection work from instructors beyond what they already do. Previous methods included …

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Supporting Students from College Through Careers Using Educational Theory-Informed Learning in a Custom Authoring Online Product

Jacquelyn Kelly, Jim Bruno, Susan Hadley, Chelsea Gordon

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