TY - GEN
T1 - Aggregate compilation behavior
T2 - 11th Annual ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, ICER 2015
AU - Jadud, Matthew C.
AU - Dorn, Brian
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2015/7/9
Y1 - 2015/7/9
N2 - The error quotient (EQ) was first reported in 2006 as a behavioral measure of novice programmers. The EQ scores how well students deal with correcting syntax errors (or not) in their programs. The original studies were carried out on data collected using BlueJ, a pedagogic Java programming environment; today, newly installed instances of BlueJ capture data similar to these early studies automatically, meaning data regarding nearly 2 million programmers is captured every year by the Blackbox project. In this paper, we apply Jadud's original error quotient algorithm to this new, massive data set, and discuss our results and analysis in light of related work. Further, we consider the implications of our findings for researchers and educators in applying the EQ to 27,698 users in 10 different countries during the fall term of 2013.
AB - The error quotient (EQ) was first reported in 2006 as a behavioral measure of novice programmers. The EQ scores how well students deal with correcting syntax errors (or not) in their programs. The original studies were carried out on data collected using BlueJ, a pedagogic Java programming environment; today, newly installed instances of BlueJ capture data similar to these early studies automatically, meaning data regarding nearly 2 million programmers is captured every year by the Blackbox project. In this paper, we apply Jadud's original error quotient algorithm to this new, massive data set, and discuss our results and analysis in light of related work. Further, we consider the implications of our findings for researchers and educators in applying the EQ to 27,698 users in 10 different countries during the fall term of 2013.
KW - Blackbox
KW - BlueJ
KW - Novice compilation behavior
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U2 - 10.1145/2787622.2787718
DO - 10.1145/2787622.2787718
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84959310946
T3 - ICER 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research
SP - 131
EP - 140
BT - ICER 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 9 August 2015 through 13 August 2015
ER -