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

fYear

2010

fDate

21-25 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

263

Lastpage

264

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 2010 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Leganes

ISSN

1943-6092

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8485-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VLHCC.2010.50

Filename

5635258