Detecting Learning Patterns during Exercise from Function Call Logs

摘要

In programming exercises in information education, teachers have to teach, figuring out student difficulties. Today, the teachers figure out the difficulties from a source code and its execution result. However, it is difficult for the teachers to figure out the difficulties from them because they are only the results of exercises. In this paper, we propose a method to detect learning patterns during exercises by collecting and analyzing function call logs. To validate the utility of the method, we have conducted a programming exercise for 17 university students and collected function call logs. Detecting the learning patterns from them, we have realized the leaning patterns detected by the method can confine student difficulties more specifically than the learning patterns detected without the method.