The NSF advantage over FCFS appears only above an arrival-rate threshold (λ > 0.06); under relaxed queues no strategy makes a difference¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r1 · q2
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Subclaims¶

q2 i? When λ > 0.06, choosing NSF over FCFS significantly increases the percentage of students who receive help (p<0.05). → Z. Gao 2024 q2 i? Under relaxed load (λ = 0.05), no significant differences among the four strategies on any metric. → Z. Gao 2024 (2)

Evidence¶

Z. Gao 2024¶

Z. Gao, G. S. de Oliveira, D. Babalola, C. Lynch, and S. Heckman. (2024). Who should i help next? simulation of office hours queue scheduling strategy in a cs2 course. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Educational Data Mining. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12729866

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Sensitivity simulation across 20 arrival rates from 0.05 to 0.10. The results show that "when λ > 0.06, the significant difference in the percentage of helped students exists (p < 0.05)", locating the boundary of NSF's benefit.

"we repeated the simulation with 20 different ar-rival rates λ, ranging from 0.05 to 0.10, and found that when λ > 0.06, the significant difference in the per-centage of helped students exists ( p < 0.05)"

Z. Gao 2024 (2)¶

Z. Gao, G. S. de Oliveira, D. Babalola, C. Lynch, and S. Heckman. (2024). Who should i help next? simulation of office hours queue scheduling strategy in a cs2 course. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Educational Data Mining. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12729866

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Relaxed-load simulation (λ = 0.05): long-wait requests were almost always 0 and no significant differences appeared among the four strategies on any metric (all p>0.05), so strategy choice does not affect resolved requests or helped students.

"We also found that when the queue was relaxed( λ = 0.05), the percentage of long wait requests was almost always 0. We did not observe any significant difference in those metrics among all four strategies (all p >0.05)"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Under busy or normal queue load, the New Student First (NSF) strategy significantly increases the percentage of students who receive help compared with FCFS, LWF, and VLWF — related
• Choice of scheduling strategy does not significantly affect the number of resolved requests or students' overall wait time — reports the opposite
• Code commit features before a help request show no correlation with interaction time, and commit-based scheduling strategies perform no better than FCFS — related