Tutoring for retention

Cottam, Joseph A.; Menzel, Suzanne; Greenblatt, Janet C.

doi:10.1145/1953163.1953227

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“…Surprisingly, they did not find a linear correlation between the exam grade and the social well-being and emotional health of the students. Recently, Joseph and Suzanne [2] examined peer tutoring's influence on students' performance in CS1 and CS2 courses. They found indications that peer tutoring had a positive impact on a students' course performances, but did not have a significant impact on the course final exam grades.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The ability to predict individual or group success in exams and courses has been researched in the past four decades [1,2]. Accurately predicting students' exam or course grades has the potential to help students in various ways; by using accurate predictions we can detect early on students who have difficulties with the course materials and help them to improve.…”

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Predicting Student Exam’s Scores by Analyzing Social Network Data

Fire

Katz

Elovici

et al. 2012

Active Media Technology

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Abstract. In this paper, we propose a novel method for the prediction of a person's success in an academic course. By extracting log data from the course's website and applying network analysis methods, we were able to model and visualize the social interactions among the students in a course. For our analysis, we extracted a variety of features by using both graph theory and social networks analysis. Finally, we successfully used several regression and machine learning techniques to predict the success of student in a course. An interesting fact uncovered by this research is that the proposed model has a shown a high correlation between the grade of a student and that of his "best" friend.

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Predicting Student Exam’s Scores by Analyzing Social Network Data

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Katz

Elovici

et al. 2012

Active Media Technology

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“…The tutor is needed to help the students gain a sense of achievement and also to support those learners, who are more oriented towards verbal communication in their sensory preferences. As shown by Cottam et al [17], peer tutors are well suited for this task. They found in their study of the effect of peer tutoring in CS1/2 significant differences in the exam grades and consider peer tutoring as an intervention to improve performance and retention in computer-related courses.…”

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Handling Heterogeneity in Programming Courses for Freshmen

Capovilla¹,

Berges²,

Mühling³

et al. 2015

2015 International Conference on Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering

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One of the biggest challenges of the computerscience department at our university is handling the enormous heterogeneity of freshmen concerning both their previous programming abilities and their learning behaviors due to their biographical and social background.In this paper, we present the design and evaluation of a preliminary programming course based on the teaching method of Mastery Learning that is particularly suited for groups of students characterized by considerable diversity. Trained peer tutors closely guide the participants through a step-by-step programming exercise. We tested the method in several courses that ran for two and a half days four weeks before the start of lectures. We collected data from two different surveys(N = 200 and N = 300, respectively).First, we quantified the considerable differences concerning the prior experience in programming of the participants. Second, we succeeded to show that the outcome of our method is independent from different sensory preferences and different computer-usage behaviors of the students. Third, the results of the survey demonstrate that our method is suited to increasing the self-perception of programming ability. This helps freshmen to overcome initial self-doubts when beginning their CS studies.

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“…The peer tutors in this case are not students who are taking the same classes as the tutees. The intention of these peer tutoring programs is to provide general support to a computer science program, or even to an entire college for the purpose of increasing student retention [20,21,22,23,24]. The peer tutors are not evaluated for their learning performance in a particular subject as the result of being tutors, which in essence, do not conform to learning-by-teaching.…”

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Learning-by-Teaching in CS Education: A Systematic Review

Yi¹,

Li²,

Zhang³

2022

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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To investigate the strategies and approaches in teaching Computer Science (CS), we searched the literature reviews in CS education in the past ten years. The reviews show that learning-by-teaching with the use of technologies helps improve student learning. To further investigate the strategies applied to learning-by-teaching, three categories are identified: peer tutoring, game-based flipped classroom, and teachable agents. For each category, we further searched and investigated prior studies. The results reveal the effectiveness and challenges of each strategy and provide insights for future studies.

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Tutoring for retention

Cited by 15 publications

References 18 publications

Predicting Student Exam’s Scores by Analyzing Social Network Data

Predicting Student Exam’s Scores by Analyzing Social Network Data

Handling Heterogeneity in Programming Courses for Freshmen

Learning-by-Teaching in CS Education: A Systematic Review

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