Comfort and experience with computing: are they the same for women and men?
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
Does it help to have some programming experience before beginning a computing degree program?
Proceedings of the 5th annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSEconference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Contributing to success in an introductory computer science course: a study of twelve factors
Proceedings of the thirty-second SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer Science Education
The effect of student attributes on success in programming
Proceedings of the 6th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Improving the CS1 experience with pair programming
SIGCSE '03 Proceedings of the 34th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Predictors of success and failure in a CS1 course
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
A CS1 course designed to address interests of women
Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Wanted: CS1 students. no experience required
Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Self-efficacy and mental models in learning to program
Proceedings of the 9th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
The experience factor in early programming education
CITC5 '04 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Information technology education
Programming: factors that influence success
Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Pair programming improves student retention, confidence, and program quality
Communications of the ACM - Music information retrieval
Predictors of success in a first programming course
ACE '06 Proceedings of the 8th Australasian Conference on Computing Education - Volume 52
Women in CS: an evaluation of three promising practices
Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Experience report: a multi-classroom report on the value of peer instruction
Proceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Retaining nearly one-third more majors with a trio of instructional best practices in CS1
Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Halving fail rates using peer instruction: a study of four computer science courses
Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
A student perspective on prior experience in CS1
Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Exploring hypotheses about media computation
Proceedings of the ninth annual international ACM conference on International computing education research
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New CS1 curricula and pedagogies have resulted in many positive outcomes over the last several years including lower fail rates and increased long-term retention. Given these positive outcomes, the question becomes how much do the traditional factors of prior experience and confidence still play a role in students' performance in and attitudes about these courses' Furthermore, given that increasingly recommended collaborative pedagogies (e.g. pair programming) force students to interact with their peers for a large percentage of their work in the class, how much does the confidence of their peers affect their own attitudes and performance? This paper presents a study investigating these questions. We find that prior experience and confidence still predict success, but only for some students. We also find that student confidence levels have little to no impact on the attitudes and performance of their peers.