Concept
Spacing Work Over Multiple Days
- An unexpected finding was that students who averaged less days of working per week actually had higher exam scores. However, this finding was not explained by previous programming experience. This finding is contrary to past research findings.
- One potential explanation is that past research has typically focused on recall which might not be directly applicable to programming.
- Students in the second course spent half a day more on assignments than those in course 1, which the researchers attempt to explain in the paper.
- One explanation is that the workload was marginally increases in Course 2.
- Another explanation was the grading scheme- course 2 was a pass/fail class while Course 1 was graded.
- Lastly, course 1 had more CS majors and course 2 had a lot of CS minors.
- In course 2, those students in the top 25% in exam points spent less days on assignments compared to the bottom 25%.
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Updated 2021-01-31
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