Effect of Prior Experience

Pick 3 of the following papers and go through them (if you cannot access these, please mention it in Ed, and I’ll get you the pdf):

• Soohyun Nam Liao, Kartik Shah, William G. Griswold, and Leo Porter. 2021. A Quantitative Analysis of Study Habits Among Lower- and Higher-Performing Students in CS1. In Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1 (ITiCSE ’21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 366–372. https://doi.org/10.1145/3430665.3456350
• Giang Bui, Naaz Sibia, Angela Zavaleta Bernuy, Michael Liut, and Andrew Petersen. 2023. Prior Programming Experience: A Persistent Performance Gap in CS1 and CS2. In Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSE 2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 889–895. https://doi.org/10.1145/3545945.3569752
• Naaz Sibia, Angela Zavaleta Bernuy, Tiana V. Simovic, Chloe Huang, Yinyue Tan, Eunchae Seong, Carolina Nobre, Daniel Zingaro, Michael Liut, and Andrew Petersen. 2024. Exploring the Effects of Grouping by Programming Experience in Q&A Forums. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research – Volume 1 (ICER ’24), Vol. 1. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 206–221. https://doi.org/10.1145/3632620.3671107
• Shao-Heng Ko and Kristin Stephens-Martinez. 2025. Prior What Experience? The Relationship Between Prior Experience and Student Help-Seeking Beyond CS1. ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. ITiCSE ’25. – In press, see Box for pre-print

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