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Willman, Salla; Lindén, Rolf; Kaila, Erkki; Rajala, Teemu; Laakso, Mikko-Jussi; Salakoski, Tapio – Computer Science Education, 2015
Computer aided assessment systems enable the collection of exact time and date information on students' activity on a course. These activity patterns reflect students' study habits and these study habits further predict students' likelihood to pass or fail a course. By identifying such patterns, those who design the courses can enforce positive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Habits, Introductory Courses, Programming
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Auvinen, Tapio; Hakulinen, Lasse; Malmi, Lauri – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2015
In online learning environments where automatic assessment is used, students often resort to harmful study practices such as procrastination and trial-and-error. In this paper, we study two teaching interventions that were designed to address these issues in a university-level computer science course. In the first intervention, we used achievement…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Computer Assisted Testing
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Asikainen, Henna; Parpala, Anna; Lindblom-Ylänne, Sari; Vanthournout, Gert; Coertjens, Liesje – Higher Education Studies, 2014
The aim of the present study is to explore changes both in approaches to learning as well as in students' experiences of the teaching-learning environment and how these changes are related to each other during their Bachelor studies by using a longitudinal data set. The aim is further to explore how students' approaches to learning and their…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Study, Longitudinal Studies, Learning Processes