Narasareddy Gari, M. R., & Walia, G. S., & Radermacher, A. (2018, June), Using Gamification and Cyber Learning Environment to Improve Students' Learning in an Introductory Computer Programming Course: An Empirical Case Study  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah. 10.18260/1-2--31206

\bibitem{asee_peer_31206}
  Narasareddy Gari, M. R., \& Walia, G. S., \& Radermacher, A. (2018, June), \emph{Using Gamification and Cyber Learning Environment to Improve Students' Learning in an Introductory Computer Programming Course: An Empirical Case Study}
  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah.
  10.18260/1-2--31206

Mourya Reddy Narasareddy Gari, Gursimran Singh Walia, and Alex Radermacher.  "Using Gamification and Cyber Learning Environment to Improve Students' Learning in an Introductory Computer Programming Course: An Empirical Case Study".  2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2018.  https://peer.asee.org/31206 Internet.  19 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_31206}
  Mourya Reddy Narasareddy Gari, Gursimran Singh Walia, and Alex Radermacher.
  "Using Gamification and Cyber Learning Environment to Improve Students' Learning in an Introductory Computer Programming Course: An Empirical Case Study".
  \emph{2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2018.
  https://peer.asee.org/31206 Internet.  19 Dec, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Software continues to affect every aspect of our lives and has resulted in greatest increase in demand for software engineers. Additionally, these software systems need to be maintained and software developers need to be trained in software testing and other verification activities to ensure delivering high quality software. The problem of integrating software testing concepts and techniques into computer programming courses (especially introductory courses) is a challenge. A major drawback of current approaches (e.g., test-driven learning) is lack of appropriate resources (knowledge, course materials and tools) to achieve successful integration. Furthermore, it is also important to ensure that the students are continuously engaged and motivated to learn. 
One way to deal with these challenges is the use of gamification to an educational cyber learning environment, to the point of increasing engagement of the student and helps in providing the impulse to the active learning of the student. In today's digital era, gamification has turned into a well-known strategy to encourage specific behavior, and increase motivation and engagement. In this paper, we have presented the study and results of improving students engagement and motivation by integrating the design mechanisms of gamification to WReSTT (Web-Repository of software Testing Tools— http://wrestt.cis.fiu.edu/about-wrestt-com) a high-level cyber learning environment for software testing. WReSTT provides a cyber-learning environment that facilitates improving students conceptual learning and practical skills in software testing. WReSTT helps in training students in software testing concepts with a series of learning objects which are modules that consists of set of tutorials followed by Q/A sessions and also practical application session in which the student creates test suite. Gamification in WReSTT has been designed and implemented with the intent of improving the student’s engagement and motivation on Learning. Gamification is one of the core design themes embedded in WReSTT. The two key game elements included in WReSTT are reward points and leaderboard. Reward points are the results of effective learning in WReSTT that are given in the form of virtual points and the leaderboard provides the instructor about the information of students who reached highest level in the course with regards to points predicated on cumulated reward points.  
This paper evaluates the usefulness of WReSTT at incorporating testing components into the introductory CS programming courses at a major public university. The empirical study was conducted at XX University wherein, two different sections of introductory CS course (CS1) used two different versions of WReSTT. The first section (a control group) used without any gamification features, while the second section (experiment group) had gamification elements (leaderboard and points). The study utilized the pre/posttest instrument tool to measure whether “gamification” had any impact on the improvement in their learning. Additionally, we analyzed how we could be improving the design and usage of the cyber-learning environments like WReSTT in the context of student learning. The pre/post test results indicated that the experiment group (that were introduced to gamification elements) performed significantly better than the control group. Additionally, subjects were able to improve their understanding of testing concepts when comparing the pre vs. post test scores. The results and feedback from the students showed that, incorporating more gamification elements like badges, progress bars to WReSTT, would definitely affect students learning positively.
AU  - Mourya Reddy Narasareddy Gari
AU  - Gursimran Singh Walia
AU  - Alex Radermacher
CY  - Salt Lake City, Utah
DA  - 2018/06/23
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Using Gamification and Cyber Learning Environment to Improve Students' Learning in an Introductory Computer Programming Course: An Empirical Case Study
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/31206
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--31206
ER  -