Investigating the Effects of Testing Frequency on Programming Performance and Students' Behavior
David Horton Smith, Chinedu Emeka, Max Fowler, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles · 2023
We conducted an across-semester quasi-experimental study that compared students' outcomes under frequent and infrequent testing regimens in an introductory computer science course. Students in the frequent testing (4 quizzes and 4 exams) semester outperformed the infrequent testing (1 midterm and 1 final exam) semester by 9.1 to 13.5 percentage points on code writing questions.