Impact Of Pair Programming Research Articles

The Impact of Pair Programming on College Students’ Interest, Perceptions, and Achievement in Computer Science

Active and collaborative learning has shown considerable promise for improving student outcomes and reducing group disparities. As one common form of collaborative learning, pair programming is an adapted work practice implemented widely in higher education computing programs. In the classroom setting, it typically involves two computer science students working together on the same programming assignment. The present study examined a cluster-randomized trial of 1,198 undergraduates in 96 lab sections. Overall, pair programming had no significant effect on students’ course performance; subject matter interest; plans for future coursework; or their confidence, comfort, and anxiety with computer science. These findings were consistent across various student characteristics, except that students with favorable pretest scores exhibited negative effects from pair programming.

The Impact of Pair Programming on the Performance of Slow-Paced Students

A study shows that pair programming can help slow-paced students in completing Introductory Programming assessment. This paper replicates the study on Data Structure course, in which the completion of the assessments does not only rely on logic but also theoretical knowledge. The aim is to check whether pair programming is still helpful on such new assessment characteristics. Three classes of Data Structure course with 14 teaching weeks and a total of 72 undergraduate students are considered in this study. Two of the classes are about Basic Data Structure while another one is the advanced one. Our evaluation shows that pair programming can help slow-paced students in both pair and individual academic performance. It also increases overall academic performance if the tasks are more logic oriented. Nevertheless, no benefits provided for fast-paced students paired to the slow-paced ones, even though all students appreciate the use of pair programming.

The Impact of Pair Programming on Students Logical Thinking_A Case Study on Higher Academic Institution

Pair Programming (PP) is a well-known agile software development technique that has been widely implemented in programming classes. Through PP, students are able to share knowledge and expertise that will contribute to better programming solutions. Nevertheless, how PP can help to improve students’ cognitive abilities has yet to be explored. Therefore, this study’s aim was to investigate the impacts of implementing Pair Programming (PP) on students’ logical thinking. Logical thinking is part of the cognitive ability claimed to be one of the crucial factors that determine the success or failure of novice programmers. To achieve this, 60 students who enrolled in Diploma in Computer Science programme in Universiti Teknologi MARA Perlis Branch, Malaysia, were asked to take the pre-test and post-test of Group Assessment Logical Thinking (GALT) Test in the beginning and at the end of the semester. These students were divided into two main groups; Control and Test in the Test Group, students with low logical ability will be paired with their high logical thinking friends. Meanwhile, in the Control Group, no pair programming or collaborative technique took place. Five programming tasks were assigned to both groups to solve either collaboratively or individually. The results obtained via paired sample t-tests statistical analysis shows significant improvements in students’ logical thinking with p-value <0.05 in the Test Group

Effective pair programming practice: toward improving student learning in software engineering class

Pair programming is one of the software development practices in which two programmers working together in partnership using one computer, cooperating with each other on the same problem. Previous research indicates that the pair programming show positive impact on the quality of produced product on the team attitudes and feeling. A formal pair programming experiments were conducted at Yarmouk University to assess and evaluate empirically the impact of pair programming in improving the learning effectiveness, efficiency, and gratification of students in software engineering course. Results reveal that students’ gratification, efficiency and effectiveness are increased when pair programming is used. Moreover, this paper shows experiment results about the compatibility between pairs. The results indicate that students who pair based on their skills are more compatible than the students who pair with different skills.

Impact of pair programming on thoroughness and fault detection effectiveness of unit test suites

AbstractPair programming (PP) is regarded as one of the practices that can make testing more rigorous, thorough and effective. Therefore, we examined PP versus solo programming (SP) with respect to both thoroughness and fault detection effectiveness of test suites. Branch coverage (BC) and mutation score indicator (MSI) were used as measures of how thoroughly tests exercise programs, and how effective they are, respectively. It turned out that the PP practice did not significantly affect BC (U = 471.5, nonsignificant, r = − 0.03) and MSI (U = 422.0, nonsignificant, r = − 0.12). These results are consistent with the results of selective analysis in which projects with a limited number of assertions are excluded. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was performed to get a more sensitive measure of our experiment effect as well as to reduce preexisting differences among subjects. The obtained results do not support anecdotal opinion regarding the positive impact of PP on thoroughness or fault detection effectiveness of unit tests. The validity of the results must be considered within the context of the limitations of the study, e.g. it is possible that the benefits of PP will appear in longer, more complex projects. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.