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Lokkila, Erno; Christopoulos, Athanasios; Laakso, Mikko-Jussi – Informatics in Education, 2023
Prior programming knowledge of students has a major impact on introductory programming courses. Those with prior experience often seem to breeze through the course. Those without prior experience see others breeze through the course and disengage from the material or drop out. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that novice student…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Programming, Computer Science Education, Markov Processes
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Denis 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
Stamper, John, Ed.; Pardos, Zachary, Ed.; Mavrikis, Manolis, Ed.; McLaren, Bruce M., Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2014
The 7th International Conference on Education Data Mining held on July 4th-7th, 2014, at the Institute of Education, London, UK is the leading international forum for high-quality research that mines large data sets in order to answer educational research questions that shed light on the learning process. These data sets may come from the traces…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Data Collection