Optimizing Pair Programming for All: Understanding Gender-Specific Behaviors

Discover how understanding gender-specific behaviors in pair programming—from compliance variations to communication styles and help-seeking—can inform educators to create more effective and inclusive learning environments.

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Abstract and I. Introduction

II. Background and Related Work

A. Learning to Program: SCRATCH and Pair Programming

B. Gender in Programming Education and Pair Programming

III. Course Design

A. Introducing Young Learners to Pair Programming

B. Implementation of Pair Programming

C. Course Schedule

IV. Method

A. Pre-Study and B. Data Collection

C. Dataset and D. Data Analysis

E. Threats to Validity

V. Results

A. RQ1: Attitude

B. RQ2: Behavior

C. RQ3: Code

VI. Conclusions and Future Work, Acknowledgments, and References

B. RQ2: Behavior

To determine the behavior of students in their pairs during the course, we analyze the observations of the supervisors within six categories. Table IV shows the normalized values of ...