Student Behavior with Worked-out Examples in a Computer Science Intelligent Tutoring System
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چکیده
The computing industry is currently facing a huge deficit in talent entering the industry. Even though enrollment in Computer Science (CS) degrees is climbing, many students drop out due to hurdles in grasping fundamental concepts. ChiQat-Tutor, our new CS Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) helps students overcome difficulties by teaching CS concepts such as data structures. Content aside, an important aspect is how this material is taught. Here we show our work on using Worked-out Examples (WOE) in the linked list tutorial of our ITS. Contrary to previous literature, we found that WOEs are not a silver bullet, and may not be an effective teaching strategy for some students.
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