Novice programmers often struggle through programming problem solving due to a lack of metacognitive awareness and strategies. Previous research has shown that novices can encounter multiple metacognitive difficulties while programming, such as forming ...

In this study, we designed a tool to investigate the relationship between students' ability to render accurate judgements of learning (JOLs) with decision-making behavior when annotating their own work and comparing it with perceived AI-generated ...

We explored how undergraduate introductory programming students naturalistically used generative AI to solve programming problems. We focused on the relationship between their use of AI to their self-regulation strategies, self-efficacy, and fear of ...

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) is transforming numerous professions, not least various fields intimately relying on creativity, such as design. To explore GAI’s adoption and appropriation in design, an interview-based study probed 10 ...

Metacognition is vital for learning in general, and its value for HCI educational practices warrants investigation. In general, metacognitive awareness can help student designers consider how their thought processes might influence their design outputs. ...

Retrieval-augmented generation have become central in natural language processing due to their efficacy in generating factual content. While traditional methods employ single-time retrieval, more recent approaches have shifted towards multi-time ...

The retrospective, or retro, is a fundamental component of the Agile process, widely used in both software engineering courses and industry. In a retro, teams come together at the end of a sprint to reflect on their team's performance. We conducted an ...

Self-regulation refers to the ability to plan, monitor, control and reflect on one's problem-solving process. Prior research has shown that self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies help improve novice performance in solving programming problems. However, ...

The realisation and the variability of information needs (IN) with respect to a searcher’s gap in knowledge is driven by the perceived Anomalous State of Knowledge (ASK). The concept of Feeling-of-Knowing (FOK), as the introspective feeling of knowledge ...

Synchronous communication, characterized by its rapid messaging and immediate feedback attributes, is pivotal in bridging the transactional distance in online education. However, learners are demotivated while facing learning challenges while working in ...

Learning programming benefits from self-regulation, but novices lack support for developing these skills of cognitive control. To support their development, we designed Code Replayer, an online tool that enables novice programmers to practice ...

Curiosity-driven learning has shown significant positive effects on students’ learning experiences and outcomes. But despite this importance, reports show that children lack this skill, especially in formal educational settings.

To address this ...

Practical simulation is increasingly used to develop reasoning skills during learning. The analysis of the scene and the correct execution of actions require an awareness of the situation and the activities performed by the student. Eye-tracking ...

An overarching goal of human-computer interaction is to build technologies that empower users to do what they want to do i.e. to realise their intentions. To achieve high-level goals and values, people have to do certain things and not do other things. ...

Metacognition is widely acknowledged as a key soft skill in collaborative software development. The ability to plan, monitor, and reflect on cognitive and team processes is crucial to the efficient and effective functioning of a software team. To explore ...

Decomposition is considered one of the four cornerstones of computational thinking, which is essential to software development [36]. It requires the ability to assess a problem at a high level, develop a strategy to combat it, and then design a solution. ...

Problem-solving is a central activity to computing, and thus a key skill that novices develop when learning programming. While most programming-related concepts are taught explicitly in introductory courses, it is common for problem-solving to be taught ...

In this study, a multi-dimensional self-regulated learning (MSRL) model is proposed. The model has been applied to a long-term and large-scale promotion program in Taiwan for helping school teachers guide students to be self-regulated learners from the ...

In many domains, imitating others’ behaviour can help individuals to solve problems that would be too difficult or too complex for the individuals. In collective decision making tasks, people have been shown to use confidence as a means to communicate the ...

Metacognition and self-regulation are important skills for successful learning and have been discussed and researched extensively in the general education literature for several decades. More recently, there has been growing interest in understanding how ...