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Motivating students to engage with a course, encouraging positive behavior, and inspiring them to take an active role in their educational process — particularly at the beginning of the course — are universal challenges in education. In this article, we share our experience with implementing an early submission incentive policy in a Machine Organization and Assembly Language Programming course. This policy encourages students to complete and submit their weekly lab work early in exchange for bonus points. We examine the impact of this positive behavior reinforcement on overall student performance (final grade), and performance in specific components such as exams and programming assignments. Our results, based on data collected over four years and involving more than 1,400 students, indicate that students who participate in early submissions achieve a higher final grade and perform better other assessments, such as programming assignments.

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Fri 28 Feb

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15:45 - 17:00
Undergraduate Instruction/ResearchPapers at Meeting Rooms 310-311
15:45
18m
Talk
A Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) Focused Broadly on Research Methods in Computer ScienceMSI
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Amanda Fernandez University of Texas at San Antonio
16:03
18m
Talk
Improving Undergraduate Computing Engagement with Computing Fellows Across Disciplines
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Elizabeth Melville Columbia University, Melissa Wright Barnard College, Jennifer Rosales Barnard College, Saima Akhtar Barnard College, Rebecca Wright Barnard College
16:22
18m
Talk
Incentivizing Good Programming Practices: The Impact of Early Program Submission on Student Course and Exam Performance
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Shirin Haji Amin Shirazi University of California, Riverside, Ashley Pang UC Riverside, Allan Knight University of California, Riverside, Mariam Salloum Univeristy of California Riverside
16:41
18m
Talk
Literature Mapping: A Scaffolded, Scalable, Low-Overhead Undergraduate Research Experience
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Brian Harrington University of Toronto Scarborough, Aditya Kulkarni University of Toronto, Rohita Nalluri University of Toronto, Anagha Vadarevu University of Toronto, Angela Zavaleta Bernuy University of Toronto