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Direct linkManuel B. Garcia – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The global shortage of skilled programmers remains a persistent challenge. High dropout rates in introductory programming courses pose a significant obstacle to graduation. Previous studies highlighted learning difficulties in programming students, but their specific weaknesses remained unclear. This gap exists due to the predominant focus on the…
Descriptors: Programming, Introductory Courses, Computer Science Education, Mastery Learning
Download full textDenis Zhidkikh; Ville Heilala; Charlotte Van Petegem; Peter Dawyndt; Miitta Jarvinen; Sami Viitanen; Bram De Wever; Bart Mesuere; Vesa Lappalainen; Lauri Kettunen; Raija Hämäläinen – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2024
Predictive learning analytics has been widely explored in educational research to improve student retention and academic success in an introductory programming course in computer science (CS1). General-purpose and interpretable dropout predictions still pose a challenge. Our study aims to reproduce and extend the data analysis of a privacy-first…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Prediction, School Holding Power, Academic Achievement
