Study Strategies and Exam Grades in CS1
Hanna Yakymova, Yoann Monteiro, Daniel Zingaro · 2016
Few have studied the correlations between the type of study strategies appropriated by students in a first-year Computer Science (CS1) class and their success in the course. In this study, CS1 students were surveyed in order to determine their study strategies (deep, surface or disorganized), which were then compared to their final exam grade. Deep study strategies were found to correlate positively with exam grade while both surface and disorganized strategies correlated negatively with exam grade. The scales, largely developed as part of this work, were found to be reliable. Hence, fellow researchers are encouraged to use these scales in future research and further develop the literature regarding study strategies in Computer Science (CS).