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Measuring Difficulty of Introductory Programming Tasks

EFFENBERGER, Tomáš, Jaroslav ČECHÁK and Radek PELÁNEK

Basic information

Original name

Measuring Difficulty of Introductory Programming Tasks

Authors

EFFENBERGER, Tomáš (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Jaroslav ČECHÁK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Radek PELÁNEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

New York, Proceedings of the Sixth (2019) ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale (L@S '19), p. „28:1“-„28:4“, 4 pp. 2019

Publisher

ACM

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14330/19:00110491

Organization unit

Faculty of Informatics

ISBN

978-1-4503-6804-9

UT WoS

000507611000028

Keywords in English

problem difficulty; problem complexity; data collection bias; introductory programming; intelligent tutoring system

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 10/6/2022 23:18, RNDr. Pavel Šmerk, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

Quantification of the difficulty of problem solving tasks has many applications in the development of adaptive learning systems, e.g., task sequencing, student modeling, and insight for content authors. There are, however, many potential conceptualizations and measures of problem difficulty and the computation of difficulty measures is influenced by biases in data collection. In this work, we explore difficulty measures for introductory programming tasks. The results provide insight into non-trivial behavior of even simple difficulty measures.

Links

MUNI/A/1018/2018, interní kód MU
Name: Rozsáhlé výpočetní systémy: modely, aplikace a verifikace VIII.
Investor: Masaryk University, Category A