50% of neurodivergent students report some discomfort with semester-long teams compared to 22% of neurotypical students¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · associational r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? ND students felt substantially less comfortable with semester-long teams than NT students, with 50% of ND students reporting some level of discomfort versus 22% of NT students. → Cynthia Zastudil 2026

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 collaboration frequency show ND students "felt sub- stantially less comfortable with semester-long teams"; "50% of ND students reported feeling some level of discomfort compared to 22% of NT students". Both groups otherwise shared the same preference order.

"ND students felt sub- stantially less comfortable with semester-long teams. 50% of ND students reported feeling some level of discomfort compared to 22% of NT students."

Studies bearing on this claim¶

Permanent teams: who finds them hard, and how should teams be formed and run? This table gathers the studies behind this claim and the 7 narrower claims that bear on it: 1 distinct studies (1 associational), q1–q2, 0 of 1 with an effect size coded. One row per study, codes as each entry records them; no effect is averaged and no verdict is drawn. Built by scripts/synthesize_claim.py from eval/synthesis/; a row that looks wrong is fixed on the claim it comes from.

Study	Design	Effect as recorded	Bears on this claim through
Cynthia Zastudil 2026	q1 / q2 · associational · r1	i?	this claim; Neurodivergent students prefer teams of 3–5 students while neurotypical students most pref (qualifies); Neurodivergent computing students feel most comfortable with student-formed teams, then in (qualifies); Neurodivergent students feel most comfortable in teams with defined roles rather than no s (qualifies); Neurodivergent students' comfort is highest for fully structured assignments and lowest fo (qualifies); ND and NT students both prefer some instructor involvement and in-person collaboration ove (qualifies); Neurodivergent students cope with collaborative active learning discomfort by self-selecti (qualifies); When coping methods fail, neurodivergent students report avoiding socialization and course (qualifies)

Discussion¶

Page metadata

Field	Value
`type`	`claim`
`id`	`nd-semester-long-team-discomfort`
`title`	`50% of neurodivergent students report some discomfort with semester-long teams compared to 22% of neurotypical students`
`description`	`50% of neurodivergent students report some discomfort with semester-long teams compared to 22% of neurotypical students`
`status`	`review`
`evidence_strength`	`moderate`
`newest_evidence`	`2026`
`generated`	by `process:wiki-ingest` on `2026-10-11`
`trust`	unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
`sources`	1 — `cynthia-zastudil-2026`

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