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While Large Language Models (LLMs) are often used as virtual tutors in computer science (CS) education, this approach can foster passive learning and over-reliance. This paper presents a novel pedagogical paradigm that inverts this model:…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Xinming Yang , Haasil Pujara , Jun Li

With the proliferation of large language model (LLM) applications since 2022, their use in education has sparked both excitement and concern. Recent studies consistently highlight students' (mis)use of LLMs can hinder learning outcomes.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ruiwei Xiao , Xinying Hou , Runlong Ye , Majeed Kazemitabaar , Nicholas Diana , Michael Liut , John Stamper

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) started a serious discussion among educators on how LLMs would affect, e.g., curricula, assessments, and students' competencies. Generative AI and LLMs also raised ethical questions and concerns…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Virginia Grande , Natalie Kiesler , Maria Andreina Francisco R

The adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) for code generation in data science offers substantial potential for enhancing tasks such as data manipulation, statistical analysis, and visualization. However, the effectiveness of these models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Nathalia Nascimento , Everton Guimaraes , Sai Sanjna Chintakunta , Santhosh Anitha Boominathan

Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Google Bard have garnered significant attention in the academic community. Previous research has evaluated these LLMs for various applications such as generating programming exercises and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Ishika Joshi , Ritvik Budhiraja , Harshal D Akolekar , Jagat Sesh Challa , Dhruv Kumar

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Requirements Engineering (RE) education is reshaping pedagogical approaches, seeking to enhance student engagement and motivation while providing practical tools to support their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Sharon Guardado , Risha Parveen , Zheying Zhang , Maruf Rayhan , Nirnaya Tripathi

Along with the development of large language models (LLMs), e.g., ChatGPT, many existing approaches and tools for software security are changing. It is, therefore, essential to understand how security-aware these models are and how these…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Jingyue Li , Per Håkon Meland , Jakob Svennevik Notland , André Storhaug , Jostein Hjortland Tysse

Large Language Models (LLMs) are capable of successfully performing many language processing tasks zero-shot (without training data). If zero-shot LLMs can also reliably classify and explain social phenomena like persuasiveness and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Caleb Ziems , William Held , Omar Shaikh , Jiaao Chen , Zhehao Zhang , Diyi Yang

Course evaluation plays a critical role in ensuring instructional quality and guiding curriculum development in higher education. However, traditional evaluation methods, such as student surveys, classroom observations, and expert reviews,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Bo Yuan , Jiazi Hu

Large language models (LLMs) are transforming how students learn by providing readily available tools that can quickly augment or complete various learning activities with non-trivial performance. Similar paradigm shifts have occurred in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Rahul R. Divekar , Sophia Guerra , Lisette Gonzalez , Natasha Boos , Helen Zhou

The arrival of AI tools and in particular Large Language Models (LLMs) has had a transformative impact on teaching and learning and institutes are still trying to determine how to integrate LLMs into education in constructive ways. Here, we…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Steven Watterson , Sarah Atkinson , Elaine Murray , Andrew McDowell

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools in various research domains. This article examines their potential through a literature review and firsthand experimentation. While LLMs offer benefits like cost-effectiveness and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-10 M. Namvarpour , A. Razi

As large language models (LLMs) advance and become widespread, students increasingly turn to systems like ChatGPT for assistance with writing tasks. Educators are concerned with students' usage of ChatGPT beyond cheating; using ChatGPT may…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Andrew Jelson , Daniel Manesh , Alice Jang , Daniel Dunlap , Young-Ho Kim , Sang Won Lee

Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming programming practices, offering significant capabilities for code generation activities. While researchers have explored the potential of LLMs in various domains, this paper focuses on their use…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Deborah Etsenake , Meiyappan Nagappan

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly reshaping software development, but their impact across the software development lifecycle is underexplored. Existing work focuses on isolated activities such as code generation or testing, leaving…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Benyamin Tabarsi , Heidi Reichert , Sam Gilson , Ally Limke , Sandeep Kuttal , Tiffany Barnes

Generative Large Language Models (gLLMs), such as ChatGPT, are increasingly being used in communication research for content analysis. Studies show that gLLMs can outperform both crowd workers and trained coders, such as research…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Daria Kravets-Meinke , Hannah Schmid-Petri , Sonja Niemann , Ute Schmid

Since the emergence of GPT-3, Large Language Models (LLMs) have caught the eyes of researchers, practitioners, and educators in the field of software engineering. However, there has been relatively little investigation regarding the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Beian Wang , Chong Wang , Peng Liang , Bing Li , Cheng Zeng

Pre-trained large language models (LLMs) have recently emerged as a breakthrough technology in natural language processing and artificial intelligence, with the ability to handle large-scale datasets and exhibit remarkable performance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Junjie Wang , Yuchao Huang , Chunyang Chen , Zhe Liu , Song Wang , Qing Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown the potential to be valuable teaching tools, with the potential of giving every student a personalized tutor. However, one challenge with using LLMs to learn new concepts is that when learning a topic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Steve Oney , Yue Shen , Fei Wu , Young Suh Hong , Ziang Wang , Yamini Khajekar , Jiacheng Zhang , April Yi Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have been touted to enable increased productivity in many areas of today's work life. Scientific research as an area of work is no exception: the potential of LLM-based tools to assist in the daily work of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Mohamed Nejjar , Luca Zacharias , Fabian Stiehle , Ingo Weber