Title :
A Socio-Psychological Approach to Improve Student Participation and Review Quality in Peer Code Reviews
Author :
Agarwal, Pawan ; Hundhausen, Christopher D.
Author_Institution :
Human-Centered Environments for Learning & Programming (HELP) Lab., Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, USA
Abstract :
Modern day computing jobs are increasingly emphasizing on soft skills such as design, collaboration and communication skills in addition to programming skills. Having students participate in peer reviews is one possible way to develop such soft skills. However, we have observed that low student participation and low review quality can impede the educational value of the peer review process. To address this issue and improve student learning in computer programming courses, we propose to implement and evaluate social comparisons - a method suggested by socio-psychological research.
Keywords :
computer science education; educational courses; programming; psychology; social sciences; collaboration skill; communication skill; computer programming course; computing job; design skill; educational value; peer code review; programming skill; review quality; social comparison; socio-psychological research; soft skill; student learning; student participation; Algorithm design and analysis; Book reviews; Communities; Encoding; Programming profession;
Conference_Titel :
Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 2010 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Leganes
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8485-0
DOI :
10.1109/VLHCC.2010.50
