How Do Students Seek Help and How Do TAs Respond? Investigating Help-Seeking Strategies in CS1 Office Hours

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Abstract

In introductory computer science courses (CS1), students who are programming for the first time will inevitably need help in order to overcome programming challenges. To accommodate large course sizes, most CS1 courses provide this help in the form of office hour sessions led by undergraduate teaching assistants (TAs). However, we have little understanding of how students go about seeking help during office hours, and what help they receive in return. In this poster, we present current findings from a grounded theory analysis of eight different CS1 office hours observations, and 16 interviews with the students and TAs who participated in them.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSIGCSE 2022 - Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V.2
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages1130
Number of pages1
ISBN (Electronic)9781450390712
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 3 2022
Event53rd Annual ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2022 - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: Mar 3 2022Mar 5 2022

Publication series

NameSIGCSE 2022 - Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V.2

Conference

Conference53rd Annual ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Online
Period3/3/223/5/22

Keywords

  • help-seeking
  • office hours
  • teaching assistants

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • Education

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