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Record W2943714016 · doi:10.1145/3300115.3309529

Answering the Correct Question

2019· article· en· W2943714016 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicTeaching and Learning Programming
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPython (programming language)Computer scienceIsolation (microbiology)Focus (optics)Code (set theory)Test (biology)Unit testingGroup (periodic table)Mathematics educationProgramming languageSoftwarePsychology

Abstract

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The first step in writing code is understanding the problem to be solved. When this step is not properly completed, students can waste time developing a solution to the wrong problem. Arguably, this tendency is exacerbated by online automatically-tested code submission systems where students work in isolation and sometimes appear to focus more on passing the instructor testcases than on understanding the problem or its solution. We report on an randomized A/B test with 831 CS1 students using an online submission system. Students in the control group wrote small Python functions based on a written description including a docstring with one example. Before the treatment-group students solved the same exercise, they were given a description of the same functions and were asked to provide the corresponding output for three sets of input. We hypothesized that this would decrease the time and attempts required to correctly write the code because students in the treatment group would not waste time on an incorrectly-conceived problem. We found support for this hypothesis on one of the problems but not on the other, and we offer some suggestions as to how this might be explained.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.925
Threshold uncertainty score0.382

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.226
Teacher spread0.221 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Citations12
Published2019
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