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What Is a Step? A User Study on How to Sub-Divide the Solution Process of Introductory Python Tasks
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Jesper Dannath; Alina Deriyeva; Benjamin Paaßen – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2025
Research on the effectiveness of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) suggests that automatic hint generation has the best effect on learning outcomes when hints are provided on the level of intermediate steps. However, ITSs for programming tasks face the challenge to decide on the granularity of steps for feedback, since it is not a priori clear…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Programming, Computer Science Education, Undergraduate Students