Proactive multimodal feedback significantly increases debugging success in pair programming compared to no-feedback control¶

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Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q3 i? In a within-subjects study with 26 dyads, debugging success was significantly higher in the ProPACT feedback condition than in the control condition. → Anahita Golrang 2026

Evidence¶

Anahita Golrang 2026¶

Anahita Golrang, Kshitij Sharma, Simon Dehaen, Olga Viberg. (2026). ProPACT: A Proactive AI-Driven Adaptive Collaborative Tutor for Pair Programming. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02703 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.02703

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Within-subjects experiment with 26 pair-programming dyads comparing ProPACT feedback and no-feedback control conditions; paired t-test on debugging success showed a significant difference, with "debugging success is significantly higher in the feedback condition than in the control condition". No effect size printed.

"a t-test with the feedback category as the independent variable and debugging success as the dependent variable shows a clear difference in the debugging success among the feedback categories (t[49.96] = -13.51, p<.0001, figure 3a). The debugging success is significantly higher in the feedback condition than in the control condition."

Discussion¶

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