Does like seek like?The formation of working groups in a programming project
- Sanou Gozalo, Eduard
- Hernández Fernández, Antonio
- Arias, Marta
- Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon
ISSN: 2013-6374
Any de publicació: 2017
Títol de l'exemplar: 9th International Conference on University Teaching and Innovation (CIDUI): Learning and teaching innovation impacts
Volum: 7
Número: 2
Pàgines: 231-240
Tipus: Article
Altres publicacions en: JOTSE
Resum
In a course of the degree of computer science, the programming project has changed from individual to teamed work, tentatively in couples (pair programming). Students have full freedom to team up with minimum intervention from teachers. The analysis of the couples made indicates that students do not tend to associate with students with a similar academic performance, maybe because general cognitive parameters do not govern the choice of academic partners. Pair programming seems to give great results, so the efforts of future research in this field should focus precisely on how these pairs are formed, underpinning the mechanisms of human social interactions.