IMPACT OF PAIR PROGRAMMING ON NOVICE PERFORMANCE IN ONLINE FIRST PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE (FPL) DURING COVID-19

Abstract

The intention of this research is to investigate effectiveness and impact of pair
programming on the performance of novices in first online programming
language like C during covid-19 pandemic. This study analyzed the efficacy of
pair programming used as a teaching tool in online introductory programming
language. It was found that pair programming technique in teaching FPL has
considerable impact on grades, learning, error handlining, cognitive
programming and collaborating learning of novices in CS1.This paper reports on
the final results of novices indicating their progress in first online programming
language course. It is indicated that collective erudition had valuable impression
on novice learning outcomes thus making learning first programming language
more interactive, appealing and exhilarating. We were concentrating on how
pair programming has affected performance, retention, dropout rate, female
and male performance of novices in online programming course. We inferred
that the treatment group with pair programming teaching approach performed
better in programming and produced better programs with good understanding
of error handling and recovery and their confident level much better in their
solutions and relished with completion of their assignments and achieved better
grades than the control group, in which no pair programming teaching method
was used. The results of analysis indicate that in experimental treatment group
pass rate was high, female novices performed more effectively as compared to
non-pairs control group.