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Effect of Students’ Seat Location on Programming Course Achievement

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Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2011)

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Classrooms for computer-related courses are intrinsically larger than regular lecture rooms because of the existence of installed PCs as well as network and outlet facilities. Some of the previous studies have investigated the effect of students’ seat location on their performance, particularly for large class sizes. In this study we examined the effect of seat location in several computer-related courses. We analysed attendance record with seat location, delay caused by tardiness and student score with factors of distance and direction. Two-way ANOVA test revealed the main effect of ‘distance’ in a large classroom. We also confirmed a weak correlation between the score and the delay.

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  1. Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

    Motoki Miura

  2. School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

    Taro Sugihara

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  1. Institute of Integrated Sensor Systems, University of Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schroedinger-str. 12, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas König

  2. Knowledge-Based Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, P.O. Box 3049, 67653, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas Dengel

  3. School of Business, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Riggenbachstr. 16, 4600, Olten, Switzerland

    Knut Hinkelmann

  4. Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Sakai, 599-8531, Osaka, Japan

    Koichi Kise

  5. KES International, P.O. Box 2115, BN43 9AF, Shoreham-by-sea, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  6. University of South Australia, Adelaide, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Miura, M., Sugihara, T. (2011). Effect of Students’ Seat Location on Programming Course Achievement. In: König, A., Dengel, A., Hinkelmann, K., Kise, K., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6883. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23854-3_57

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