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Failure rates in introductory programming revisited (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Watson, C., & Li, F. W. (2014). Failure rates in introductory programming revisited. In Å. Cajander, M. Daniels, T. Clear, & A. Pears (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Innovation & technology in computer science education (ITiCSE '14) (39-44). https://doi.org/10.1145/2591708.2591749

Whilst working on an upcoming meta-analysis that synthesized fifty years of research on predictors of programming performance, we made an interesting discovery. Despite several studies citing a motivation for research as the high failure rates of int... Read More about Failure rates in introductory programming revisited.

No Tests Required: Comparing Traditional and Dynamic Predictors of Programming Success (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Watson, C., Li, F. W., & Godwin, J. L. (2014). No Tests Required: Comparing Traditional and Dynamic Predictors of Programming Success. In J. . D. Dougherty, K. Nagel, A. Decker, & K. Eiselt (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (469-474). https://doi.org/10.1145/2538862.2538930

Research over the past fifty years into predictors of programming performance has yielded little improvement in the identification of at-risk students. This is possibly because research to date is based upon using static tests, which fail to reflect... Read More about No Tests Required: Comparing Traditional and Dynamic Predictors of Programming Success.