Self-predicted and actual performance in an introductory programming course

Paul Denny; Andrew Luxton-Reilly; John Hamer; Dana B. Dahlstrom; Helen C. Purchase

doi:10.1145/1822090.1822124

Self-predicted and actual performance in an introductory programming course

Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, John Hamer, Dana B. Dahlstrom, Helen C. Purchase

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Abstract

Students in a large introductory programming course were asked twice to predict their scores on the final exam: once at the beginning of a six-week module, and once at the end. In between, students in only one of the two lecture streams recorded subjective confidence in their answers to individual questions on weekly quizzes. Students' predictions were moderately correlated with their scores. Students who attended more quizzes had not only higher exam scores, but improved their predictions more than those who attended fewer quizzes. Practice recording confidence on individual quiz questions did not yield significantly more improvement in exam predictions. Several findings from previous work are confirmed, including that women were significantly more underconfident than men.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ITiCSE'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGCSE Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	118-122
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	9781605588209
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1822090.1822124
Publication status	Published - 2010
Externally published	Yes
Event	Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education 2010 - Ankara, Türkiye Duration: 26 Jun 2010 → 30 Jun 2010 Conference number: 15th https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1822090 (Proceedings)

Conference

Conference	Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education 2010
Abbreviated title	ITiCSE 2010
Country/Territory	Türkiye
City	Ankara
Period	26/06/10 → 30/06/10
Other	Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1822090 (Proceedings)

Keywords

Confidence
Gender
Learning
Metacognition

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Denny, P., Luxton-Reilly, A., Hamer, J., Dahlstrom, D. B., & Purchase, H. C. (2010). Self-predicted and actual performance in an introductory programming course. In ITiCSE'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGCSE Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (pp. 118-122). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/1822090.1822124

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Denny, P, Luxton-Reilly, A, Hamer, J, Dahlstrom, DB & Purchase, HC 2010, Self-predicted and actual performance in an introductory programming course. in ITiCSE'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGCSE Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 118-122, Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education 2010, Ankara, Türkiye, 26/06/10. https://doi.org/10.1145/1822090.1822124

Self-predicted and actual performance in an introductory programming course. / Denny, Paul; Luxton-Reilly, Andrew; Hamer, John et al.
ITiCSE'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGCSE Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2010. p. 118-122.

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