Informed Voluntary Consent For Human Evaluation Survey

Research Title: Modelling Students' Source Code Evolutions To Provide Personalised Guidance During Practical Activities In Introductory Programming Courses

Invitation to participate, and benefits: You are invited to give consent and participate in a human evaluation survey for personalized hints generated by an LLM model based on source codes from CSC1015/7/9F for a research study conducted with university students doing programming. The study aims to provide personalized problem-solving guidance in introductory programming courses by modelling changes in code submissions over time. The study's main objective is to simplify practical tasks and learning programming for first-year students and with previous work, a model was developed that shows the trajectory in learning and matches similar student approaches to generate related hints

Procedures: During this study, you are expected to review the student codes and solution/goal codes displayed on top of the survey questions. Then carefully read the generated hints under each level and evaluate their relevance, clarity, and applicability to the task.

Risks: There are no potentially harmful risks related to your participation in this study.

Feedback: The study’s outcome and recommendations will be shared on ZivaHub at the end of my project. The research dissertation will be made available through the UCT Open Access Policy.

Disclaimer/Withdrawal: Your participation is completely voluntary; you may refuse to participate, and you may withdraw at any time without having to state a reason and without any prejudice or penalty against you. Should you choose to withdraw, the researcher commits not to use any of the information you have provided without your signed consent. Note that the researcher may also withdraw you from the study at any time.

Disclaimer/Confidentiality: All information collected in this study will be kept private in that you will not be identified by name or by affiliation to an institution. Your personal information will not be linked to the data relating to the outcomes of the study, nor will your participation be used to influence your course marks. Confidentiality and anonymity will be maintained throughout the analysis of the survey.

Incentive: All participants of the survey will be entered into a random draw to win a Samsung Tablet. Please ensure you provide accurate information.

What agreeing to this form means: By approving this consent form, you agree to complete the evaluation survey truthfully and sincerely. The aim, procedures to be used, as well as the potential risks and benefits of your participation, have been explained to you in detail, using this form.

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For more information about the survey please contact: Herman Kandjimi(kndher001@myuct.ac.za)

Project Supervisor: Prof Hussein Suleman