ND and NT students both prefer some instructor involvement and in-person collaboration over fully student-directed and online collaboration¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2026 · checked against its sources 2026-10-17 (automated, 2 of 2 entries) · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? ND and NT students showed similar comfort patterns for instructor involvement, most preferring some involvement and least preferring fully student-directed work. → Cynthia Zastudil 2026 q2 i? Both ND and NT students reported more comfort with in-person collaboration than online collaboration. → Cynthia Zastudil 2026 (2)

Evidence¶

Cynthia Zastudil 2026¶

Cynthia Zastudil, Srishty Muthusekaran, Rayhona Nasimova, and Stephen MacNeil. (2026). “I can’t read your mind”: A Study of Neurodivergent Computing Students’ Experiences with Collaborative Active Learning. Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1 (ITiCSE 2026). https://doi.org/10.1145/3803400.3809386

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Survey distributions of comfort with levels of instructor involvement; the article reports ND and NT students indicated similar comfort levels. Both groups were "most comfortable with some instructor involvement (ND: 62.5%; NT: 60%)" and least with "fully student-directed (ND: 25%; NT: 30%)".

"They felt the most comfortable with some instructor involvement (ND: 62.5%; NT: 60%), then high instructor involvement (ND: 58.33%; NT: 57.89%), and lastly fully student-directed (ND: 25%; NT: 30%)."

Cynthia Zastudil 2026 (2)¶

Cynthia Zastudil, Srishty Muthusekaran, Rayhona Nasimova, and Stephen MacNeil. (2026). “I can’t read your mind”: A Study of Neurodivergent Computing Students’ Experiences with Collaborative Active Learning. Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1 (ITiCSE 2026). https://doi.org/10.1145/3803400.3809386

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Survey distributions of comfort with collaboration location. Both groups "were more comfortable with in-person collaboration (ND: 57.17%; NT: 80%) over online collaboration (ND: 29.17%; NT: 45%)".

"Both ND and NT students expressed that they were more comfortable with in-person collaboration (ND: 57.17%; NT: 80%) over online collaboration (ND: 29.17%; NT: 45%)."

Discussion¶

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