Characterizing Computing Students’ Academic Help-seeking Behavior
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Abstract
Academic help-seeking is a vital part of students’ self-regulated learning strategies. Computing students’ help-seeking horizon has seen several transformations in the past 15 years such that existing frameworks no longer capture current computing students’ learning environment, motivating a dedicated study on computing students’ academic help-seeking behavior. Building on extant works that focus on a single course or help source, my research investigates computing students’ academic help-seeking behavior across different contexts. By analyzing students’ help-seeking records, my research seeks to understand how and why computing students transition between available help resources while seeking help, as well as how this process changes in different contexts.
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