How do Quiz and Homework Submission Times Affect Students' Performance in a Flipped CS1 Class?
L. V. Harvey, Ashish Aggarwal · 2020
This poster presents an analysis of students' quiz and homework submission times in a flipped introductory programming course (CS1) using MATLAB. A total of 145 engineering students were divided into three sections where every week they were expected to watch the prerecorded content videos and complete a quiz before the class on Monday. During the class, students practiced short programming problems while after the class students were expected to submit a homework assignment by the end of the week. We studied their quiz and homework submission times to gauge and categorize their behavior. Four major categories of submission time clusters were analyzed based on when the weekly quizzes and homeworks were due. We found that students who submitted the quizzes and homeworks 24 hours prior to the submission deadline had significantly higher exam scores as compared to students who submitted during the last 24 hours. Additionally, we found that this difference was only significant for students who did not have prior programming experience. This indicates that early submission of assignments can help students who do not have prior programming experience in improving their overall course performance.