Missing prompt-element types significantly co-occur: failure to provide appropriate functionality explanation correlates strongly with missing expected output/return and with extraneous elements¶
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q2 i? Correlational analysis of coded prompts found significant correlations between prompts failing to describe Appropriate Required Input(s), Specified Argument Names, Specified Function Return Type, and a Correct Order of Arguments across the majority of problems. → Victor-Alexandru Pădurean 2026
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Victor-Alexandru Pădurean 2026¶
Victor-Alexandru Pădurean, Kaitlin Riegel, Gweneth Barbre, Musa Blake, Paul Denny, Alkis Gotovos, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, James Prather, and Adish Singla. (2026). Understanding Student Perceptions, Mistakes, and Debugging Approaches when Solving Natural Language Programming Tasks. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research Vol.1 (ICER 2026 Vol. 1). https://doi.org/10.1145/3765964.3811639
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Pearson correlation analysis (Table 4) of coded mistake types among initially incorrect prompts, e.g. correlations up to r = .93 between missing functionality explanation and extraneous elements for B2-3. Only correlation coefficients and p thresholds are printed, so no effect-size magnitude beyond r is reported.
"There were, notably, significant correlations between the prompts failing to describeAppropriate Required Input(s),Specified Argument Names,Specified Function Return Type, and aCorrect Order of Arguments, across the majority of problems."
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Related Claims¶
- The most common prompt mistakes are omissions of key details, most frequently the specified function return type — related
- Correlations between the number of prompt mistakes and number of messages sent were non-significant or weak, giving little evidence that mistake count influenced prompting effort — related
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Missing prompt-element types significantly co-occur: failure to provide appropriate functionality explanation correlates strongly with missing expected output/return and with extraneous elements |
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Missing prompt-element types significantly co-occur: failure to provide appropriate functionality explanation correlates strongly with missing expected output/return and with extraneous elements |
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