Inferring Students’ Tracing Behaviors from Interaction Logs of a Learning Environment for Software Design Comprehension
Prajish Prasad, Sridhar R. Iyer · 2020
VeriSIM is a learning environment which helps software engineering students comprehend a given design, by enabling them to trace different scenarios in the design. Learners trace different scenarios by constructing a state diagram. In VeriSIM, learners go through four challenges which help them progressively trace scenarios in the design. VeriSIM provides learners affordances to add, edit, delete states, as well as “run” a given state diagram. All such learner interactions are logged in the system. In this paper, we analyze the interaction logs of 12 students, in order to infer certain behavior patterns. The preliminary analysis of these patterns shows that the order of the challenges help learners effectively trace scenarios.