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Table 5 Novices vs. advanced students performance measures (ns denotes not significant)

From: Investigating the effects of learning activities in a mobile Python tutor for targeting multiple coding skills

	Identifying error	Output prediction	Code fixing
Attempts
Novices	5.33 (2.98)	3.26 (.51)	8.07 (4.02)
Advanced	4.21 (.94)	2.63 (.28)	5.37 (1.52)
	ns	p = .000, U = 256	p = .002, U = 243
Time per activity (min)
Novices	2.01 (0.69)	1.48 (0.63)	1.63 (0.82)
Advanced	2.23 (0.43)	1.30 (0.30)	1.59 (0.47)
	ns	ns	ns
Time per attempt
Novices	0.87 (0.47)	0.56 (0.27)	0.25 (0.14)
Advanced	0.99 (0.32)	0.56 (0.15)	0.38 (0.14)
	ns	ns	p = .003, U = 65
Score
Novices (16)	0.47 (0.16)	0.63 (0.13)	0.25 (0.16)
Advanced (19)	0.60 (0.16)	0.75 (0.09)	0.47 (0.15)
	p = .020, U = 82.5	p = .006, U = 70.5	p = .000, U = 40

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