TY - GEN
T1 - Measuring increased engagement using tablet PCs in a code review class
AU - Fagen, Wade
AU - Kamin, Samuel
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The Programming Studio in the University of Illinois Com-puter Science department is a required course in which small groups of students participate in weekly code reviews of each other's programs. To increase student engagement in the discussions, Tablet PCs were introduced for several weeks in the middle of the semester. By recording the discussions before, during, and after the use of tablets, we measure the effectiveness of this intervention. In doing so, we develop a simple metric to measure the \active engagement" of the participants. We found each section was significantly more engaging when using Tablet PCs (p<0.0001) and the large majority of individual participants were more engaged. This paper contributes both an objective measurement of \active engagement" and a successful intervention in a programming studio-type course.
AB - The Programming Studio in the University of Illinois Com-puter Science department is a required course in which small groups of students participate in weekly code reviews of each other's programs. To increase student engagement in the discussions, Tablet PCs were introduced for several weeks in the middle of the semester. By recording the discussions before, during, and after the use of tablets, we measure the effectiveness of this intervention. In doing so, we develop a simple metric to measure the \active engagement" of the participants. We found each section was significantly more engaging when using Tablet PCs (p<0.0001) and the large majority of individual participants were more engaged. This paper contributes both an objective measurement of \active engagement" and a successful intervention in a programming studio-type course.
KW - Code reviews
KW - Tablet PC
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U2 - 10.1145/2445196.2445338
DO - 10.1145/2445196.2445338
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84876258552
SN - 9781450320306
T3 - SIGCSE 2013 - Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
SP - 465
EP - 470
BT - SIGCSE 2013 - Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2013
Y2 - 6 March 2013 through 9 March 2013
ER -