Nolan, Keith and Bergin, Susan and Mooney, Aidan
(2019)
An Insight Into the Relationship Between Confidence,
Self-efficacy, Anxiety and Physiological Responses in a CS1
Exam-like Scenario.
In:
Proceedings of the 1st UK & Ireland Computing Education Research Conference, UKICER 2019.
Association for Computing Machinery.
ISBN 9781450372572
Abstract
Computer Science typically has one of the highest attrition rates
in tertiary level education. Many reasons have been put forward
as to the cause, including, for example, no prior formal experience
of programming, high workloads and poor mental health of students. Recent advancements in wearable technology have made it
possible to accurately and easily measure aspects of physiological
response associated with emotional arousal which can be indicative
of stress, such as heart rate variability and skin conductance. A
novel opportunity now exists to monitor learners in real-time and
gain an insight on their physiological responses during a learning task. Such information, perhaps coupled with known factors
that influence learning success, could provide new insight to allow
educators to better tailor module design, delivery, and assessment.
This paper builds on a study which concluded that there was
no correlation between self-reported anxiety and Heart Rate and
Electrodermal Activity. The goal of this paper is to investigate the
relationship between measures such as self-reported anxiety, programming self-efficacy, confidence in responses and physiological
responses during a controlled exam-like setting. An out-of-the-box
psychological test was used to measure self-reported anxiety, a
well-established questionnaire was used to measure self-efficacy
and wearable sensors were used to measure physiological arousal,
before and during the exam. Study design and methodology are
described in detail in this paper. While no significant results were
found, perhaps the most interesting finding is that students confidence in their answers weakly correlates with their physiological
response when completing multiple choice programming questions.
While the findings presented may not be major, they are novel and
will provide direction for future research in the area.
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Book Section
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Additional Information: |
Funding: This work was funded by the Irish
Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship 2015 GOIPG/2015/1671. Cite as: Keith Nolan, Susan Bergin, and Aidan Mooney. 2019. An Insight Into the Relationship Between Confidence, Self-efficacy, Anxiety and Physiological Responses in a CS1 Exam-like Scenario. In Proceedings of the 1st UK & Ireland Computing Education Research Conference (UKICER). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 8, 1–7. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3351287.3351296 |
Keywords: |
Confidence; self-efficacy; physiological signals; CS1; anxiety; |
Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science |
Item ID: |
14239 |
Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1145/3351287.335129 |
Depositing User: |
Aidan Mooney
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Date Deposited: |
24 Mar 2021 14:36 |
Publisher: |
Association for Computing Machinery |
Refereed: |
Yes |
Funders: |
Irish Research Council (IRC) |
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