VL/HCC 2022
Mon 12 - Fri 16 September 2022 Rome, Italy
Thu 15 Sep 2022 14:30 - 15:00 at San Francesco Room - Session on Programming Education Chair(s): Judith Good

Teaching assistants (TAs) play a crucial role in Computer Science courses. When a student is stuck or confused, they often rely on a TA to help them understand a concept or debug their program. At the same time, TAs in Computer Science courses are often very new at teaching, and somewhat new at programming. They may lack the knowledge and resources necessary to help students learn effectively. This work seeks to better understand the nature of TA-student interactions and identify potential opportunities for improvement. We conducted an observational study of one-on-one TA-Student interactions during office hours of a Computer Science course, and analyzed these interactions through the lens of known practices of effective one-on-one tutors. We found that TA-Student interactions focus on code over concepts, and this focus may be detrimental to TAs’ use of good tutoring practices.

Thu 15 Sep

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14:00 - 15:15
Session on Programming EducationResearch Papers at San Francesco Room
Chair(s): Judith Good University of Amsterdam
14:00
30m
Talk
ParamMacros: Creating UI Automation Leveraging End-User Natural Language ParameterizationFull paper
Research Papers
Rebecca Krosnick University of Michigan, Steve Oney University of Michigan
DOI
14:30
30m
Talk
How Do Teaching Assistants Teach? Characterizing the Interactions Between Students and TAs in a Computer Science CourseFull paper
Research Papers
Yana Malysheva Washington University in St. Louis, John Allen Washington University in St. Louis, Caitlin Kelleher Washington University in St. Louis
DOI
15:00
15m
Talk
Is Assertion Roulette still a test smell? An experiment from the perspective of testing educationShort paper
Research Papers
Gina Bai North Carolina State University, Kai Presler-Marshall North Carolina State University, Susan Fisk Kent State University, Kathryn Stolee North Carolina State University
DOI