STEM Education PhD working at CS EdTech startup @CodioHQ. Conducting research outside academia along with other fun CS Ed stuff. She/her/hers
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Codex can generate a correct error message explanation about half the time -- and can provide a correct fix about a third of the time #SIGCSE2023
Also, codex likes to blame indentation and sounds confident when it is wrong.
Some challenges when transitioning from blocks to text include syntax, memorization, data types, error messages, and language change. This represents a large knowledge gap and students are likely to hit many errors during this transition #SIGCSE2023
Students using a structured ide as a scaffold regressed when errors were prevented -- when scaffolding blocks to text needs to keep students actively writing code. #SIGCSE2023
Another concern is the juggling of tools - would be best to keep students in one tool.
How unreadable is that error message? Look at
1. Length (# of words)
2. Proportion of Basic English words
3. # reserved words or "jargon"
4. Is it a complete sentence?
#sigcse2023
Now that we can measure error message readability, we can improve it!
Susan Rodger receiving the ACM @SIGCSE_TS award for outstanding contribution to computer science education #sigcse2023 Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉
ALT Susan Rodger receiving award
7 tips for teaching:
1. Borrow - don't start from scratch
2. Make concepts visual
3. Interactive lectures
4. Use visual and interactive tools (and make mistakes!)
5. Use applications to show why
6. Make it hands on and fun
7. Make change happen
#sigcse2023
The Programming Exercise Markup Language: Towards Reducing the Effort Needed to Use Automated Grading Tools kicking off with "who needs another markup language? Not me!" #SIGCSE2023 Maybe it's worth it for compatibility?
Claim: for profits want market differentiation and are not interested in making porting easier or exporting easy to parse, common formats so won't drive this effort. The speaker missed the @CodioHQ session - we love json and yaml! #SIGCSE2023
Want to try PEML? The website is: discovery.cs.vt.edu/peml-liv… Do you build a tool? There is a REST API! #SIGCSE2023
Let's dive into the importance of timeliness of feedback - Studying The Impact Of Auto-Graders Giving Immediate Feedback In Programming Assignments #sigcse2023
Interesting to see immediate feedback helping female identifying students slightly more than male identifying counterparts - opening up the question does immediate feedback help support other historically marginalized populations? #sigcse2023
The final pitch? Use a mixed approach - start with immediate feedback on assignments then remove so students are motivated to write tests (of varying quality) for their code. It would be interesting to see if this holds water... #sigcse2023
Need an idea for a question at #sigcse2023 that isn't about ChatGPT? Try asking about accessibility!
Defining "executable exams" at Executable Exams: Taxonomy, Implementation and Prospects #sigcse2023
ALT Executable exams are exams where students are given programming problems, write code in an ide, and submissions a digitally validated (read autograded)
There is a wide range of autograder feedback from no feedback, basic syntax feedback, and various levels of correctness feedback #sigcse2023
ALT Autograder feedback slide - most common type is correctness feedback
Most executable exams are synchronous, mostly autonomously graded, give correctness feedback, allow unlimited resubmissions, allow some resources, have human proctors, and BYOD with loaners(meaning unrestricted software) #SIGCSE2023