Gertner, Y., & Alvarez, J., & Cosman, B., & Amos, J. R. (2023, June), Identifying Student Profiles Related to Success in Discrete Math CS Courses  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43439

\bibitem{asee_peer_43439}
  Gertner, Y., \& Alvarez, J., \& Cosman, B., \& Amos, J. R. (2023, June), \emph{Identifying Student Profiles Related to Success in Discrete Math CS Courses}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--43439

Yael Gertner, Juan Alvarez, Benjamin Cosman, and Jennifer R. Amos.  "Identifying Student Profiles Related to Success in Discrete Math CS Courses".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/43439 Internet.  28 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_43439}
  Yael Gertner, Juan Alvarez, Benjamin Cosman, and Jennifer R. Amos.
  "Identifying Student Profiles Related to Success in Discrete Math CS Courses".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/43439 Internet.  28 May, 2024

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AB  - Researchers in Computer Science education are working to identify sets of student features that play a role in course performance with the goal of helping students improve their outcomes. Specifically, researchers identified motivation, certain study behaviors, sense of belonging, and growth mindset as important factors. This prior work mainly focused on introduction to programming courses. In this paper we focus on another important gateway course in the computing sequence: Discrete Math. This course involves conceptual problem solving that requires students to think about a problem and conceptually understand it before starting to work on it.  These study behaviors might be new to students.  During Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 we surveyed over 400 students in two semesters of a Discrete Math course in a large state University. Students answered a questionnaire with 60 questions taken from validated instruments related to the factors mentioned previously.  We found that final grades correlated with motivation.   Students who were high performing agreed more than low performing students with statements such as "I think that I am going to be pretty good at this class". We also found that final grades correlated with predispositions towards certain learning behaviors.   High performing students were more likely than low performing students to be classified as Reflectors.  They were more likely to prefer to “try to fully understand the problem first” rather than “start working on the solution immediately”. In future work, we plan to use this to design interventions specifically tailored to such conceptual problem solving classes.
AU  - Yael Gertner
AU  - Juan Alvarez
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AU  - Jennifer R. Amos
CY  - Baltimore , Maryland
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