Diary of a Programming Assessment

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Diary of a Programming Assessment

• Janet Carter

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Identifying student behavioural models

• Are you a
• Loner
• Co-operator
• Collaborator?
• EXPERIMENT

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How does this affect student behaviour
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Loners
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Co-operators
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Collaborators
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The assessment is set

• Task
• Write a Java petrol station simulation
• Assumption
• Students work alone
• Reality
• Some do and some dont
• What do they do?

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Diary

• A case study
• Data collection
• Observation
• Interview
• Email
• The code produced

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Diary of a loner
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Co-operators diary
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Collaborators diary
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Behavioural effects

• Quality of code
• Impact upon grades