Mining student CVS repositories for performance indicators

Authors:
Keir Mierle;Kevin Laven;Sam Roweis;Greg Wilson
Affiliations:
University of Toronto;University of Toronto;University of Toronto;University of Toronto
Venue:
MSR '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international workshop on Mining software repositories
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Over 200 CVS repositories representing the assignments of students in a second year undergraduate computer science course have been assembled. This unique data set represents many individuals working separately on identical projects, presenting the opportunity to evaluate the effects of the work habits captured by CVS on performance. This paper outlines our experiences mining and analyzing these repositories. We extracted various quantitative measures of student behaviour and code quality, and attempted to correlate these features with grades. Despite examining 166 features, we find that grade performance cannot be accurately predicted; certainly no predictors stronger than simple lines-of-code were found.