Teacher feedback provided to learners in real-time is a crucial factor for their knowledge and
skills acquisition. However, providing real-time feedback at an individual level is often …

As computing becomes a mainstream discipline embedded in the school curriculum and
acts as an enabler for an increasing range of academic disciplines in higher education, the …

Contribution: This paper adds to the results of previous systematic literature reviews by
addressing a more contemporary context of introductory programming. It proposes a …

Whilst working on an upcoming meta-analysis that synthesized fifty years of research on
predictors of programming performance, we made an interesting discovery. Despite several …

The notion of graph which is most useful in computer science is that of a directed graph or
just a graph. A graph is a combinatorial structure consisting of a finite nonempty set of …

The high failure rates of many programming courses means there is a need to identify
struggling students as early as possible. Prior research has focused upon using a set of tests …

Research over the past fifty years into predictors of programming performance has yielded
little improvement in the identification of at-risk students. This is possibly because research …

Theories on learning show that formative feedback that is immediate, specific, corrective,
and positive is essential to improve novice students' motivation and learning. However, most …

This paper presents a game-based learning environment to support novice students
learning programming. The proposed environment exploits game construction tasks to make …

Feedback is regarded as one of the most important influences on student learning and
motivation. But standard compiler feedback is designed for experts-not novice programming …