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An on-line drilling system, the tutor-web, has been developed and used for teaching mathematics and statistics. The system was used in a basic course in calculus including 182 students. The students were requested to answer quiz questions…

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Building on successful work on studying and transforming our senior-level Advanced Lab course, we have transformed our junior-level Electronics course to engage students in a variety of authentic scientific practices, including…

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Debugging is a crucial skill in programming education and software development, yet it is often overlooked in CS curricula. To address this, we introduce an AI-powered debugging assistant integrated into an IDE. It offers real-time support…

The modern engineering landscape increasingly requires a range of skills to successfully integrate complex systems. Project-based learning is used to help students build professional skills. However, it is typically applied to small teams…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Robert Margolies , Maria Gorlatova , John Sarik , Peter Kinget , Ioannis Kymissis , Gil Zussman

Taking notes during lectures is one of the required skills, among many others, that students need (i) to master the topic covered in the lecture, (ii) to actively engage in the learning process with minimal to no distractions, (iii) to…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-12-23 Chandra M. Adhikari

Design and scientific investigation are recognized as key components of undergraduate physics laboratory curricula. In light of this, many successful lab programs have been developed to train students to develop these abilities, and…

Physics Education · Physics 2016-06-29 Evan Halstead

Tutoring systems improve learning through tailored interventions, such as worked examples, but often suffer from the aptitude-treatment interaction effect where low prior knowledge learners benefit more. We applied the ICAP learning theory…

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To enhance student learning, we demonstrate an experimental study to analyze student learning outcomes in online and in-class sections of a core data communications course of the Undergraduate IT program in the Information Sciences and…

Physics Education · Physics 2017-12-15 Pouyan Ahmadi , Khondkar Islam. Salman Yousaf

Academic Data Mining was one of emerging field which comprise procedure of examined students details by different elements such as earlier semester marks, attendance, assignment, discussion, lab work were of used to improved bachelor…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Fahad Razaque , Nareena Soomro , Shoaib Ahmed Shaikh , Safeeullah Soomro , Javed Ahmed Samo , Natesh Kumar , Huma Dharejo

Generating hints for incorrect code is a cognitively demanding task that fosters learning and metacognitive development. This study investigates three designs for personalized, scalable, and reflective hint-writing activities within a data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Anjali Singh , Christopher Brooks , Warren Li , Juho Kim , Xu Wang

Debugging is a demanding aspect of programming yet guidance on how to teach it effectively remains limited. Novices often struggle to recognize impasses regulate their problem solving and manage cognitive load and stress. This study…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Anahita Golrang , Kshitij Sharma

Context: Evidence-based software engineering (EBSE) can be an effective resource to bridge the gap between academia and industry by balancing research of practical relevance and academic rigor. To achieve this, it seems necessary to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Sebastián Pizard , Diego Vallespir , Barbara Kitchenham

The growing use of technology in K--8 classrooms highlights a parallel need for formal learning opportunities aimed at helping children use technology safely and protect their personal information. Even the youngest students are now using…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Lan Gao , Elana B Blinder , Abigail Barnes , Kevin Song , Tamara Clegg , Jessica Vitak , Marshini Chetty

Deep neural networks can be unreliable in the real world when the training set does not adequately cover all the settings where they are deployed. Focusing on image classification, we consider the setting where we have an error distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Sahil Singla , Atoosa Malemir Chegini , Mazda Moayeri , Soheil Feiz

This Work-In-Progress Paper for the Innovative Practice Category presents a novel experiment in active learning of cybersecurity. We introduced a new workshop on hacking for an existing science-popularizing program at our university. The…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Valdemar Švábenský , Jan Vykopal

Our ongoing development and deployment of an online robotics education platform highlighted a gap in providing an interactive, feedback-rich learning environment essential for mastering programming concepts in robotics, which they were not…

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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how a clinical interview protocol with failure artifact scenarios can capture changes in high school students' explanations of troubleshooting processes in physical computing activities. We…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Luis Morales-Navarro , Deborah A. Fields , Yasmin B. Kafai , Deepali Barapatre

This paper provides an overview of students behavior analysis on a learning management system (LMS), Blackboard (Bb) Learn for a core data communications course of the Undergraduate IT program in the Information Sciences and Technology…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Salman Yousaf , Pouyan Ahmadi , Khondkar Islam

The birth of massive open online courses (MOOCs) has had an undeniable effect on how teaching is being delivered. It seems that traditional in class teaching is becoming less popular with the young generation, the generation that wants to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Sepinoud Azimi , Carmen-Gabriela Popa , Tatjana Cucić

Academic procrastination is prevalent among undergraduate computer science students. Many studies have linked procrastination to poor academic performance and well-being. Procrastination is especially detrimental for advanced students when…

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