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> Unfortunately, we couldn't measure such correlations due to many external factors that can impact students' performance on test scores.

Fair. Guess we'll have to roll it out to increase that sample size :)

> We found that students who performed higher on our Scratch programming pre-tests (before starting the Python lessons), performed significantly better if they had access to the code generator.

Interesting!

From the paper > Additionally, students in the Codex group were more eager and excited to continue learning about programming, and felt much less stressed and discouraged during the training

This by itself could reap great benefits years down the line. Me and my wife have felt the same way at work!