PACT: Parsons Adaptive Coding Tool

PACT: Parsons Adaptive Coding Tool

Project Members: Nadia Goralski, Jeremy S. Bradbury

Software: [link coming soon!]

Description: The Parsons Adaptive Coding Tool (PACT) includes adaptation strategies between different levels of Parsons problems as well as the ability to adapt directly to and from a coding task. This allows students to work at a self-selected level of difficulty from a Parsons problem with no distractors all the way up to writing code. Specifically, students can move between five levels:

1. Two-line blocks of code with no distractors
2. Two-line blocks of code with a low number (e.g., 1-2) of distractors
3. One-line blocks of code with a low number of distractors
4. One-line blocks of code with a moderate number (e.g., 3-4) of distractors
5. Writing code in an online editor

Presentations, Posters and Demos:

• Nadia L. Goralski, Jeremy S. Bradbury. “Adapting Between Parsons Problems and Coding Tasks.” Proc. of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2023) – Posters, Toronto, Canada, March 2023, pages 1289.

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