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While recent years have seen a growing interest in accessible visualization tools and techniques for blind people, little attention is paid to the learning opportunities and teaching strategies of data science and visualization tailored for…

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Introductory programming courses often rely on small code-writing exercises that have clearly specified problem statements. This limits opportunities for students to practice how to clarify ambiguous requirements -- a critical skill in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Paul Denny , Viraj Kumar , Stephen MacNeil , James Prather , Juho Leinonen

Tailoring the presentation of information to the needs of individual students leads to massive gains in student outcomes~\cite{bloom19842}. This finding is likely due to the fact that different students learn differently, perhaps as a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Sam Saarinen , Evan Cater , Michael Littman

In this research, a literature in human-computer interaction is reviewed and the technology aspect of human computer interaction related with digital academic supportive devices is also analyzed. According to all these concerns,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2015-01-06 S. Thuseethan , S. Kuhanesan

The development of new technologies and their expanding use in a wide range of educational environments are driving the transformation of higher education. Assistive technologies are a subset of cutting-edge technology that can help…

Providing students with flexible and timely academic support is a challenge at most colleges and universities, leaving many students without help outside scheduled hours. Large language models (LLMs) are promising for bridging this gap, but…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Chang Liu , Loc Hoang , Andrew Stolman , Rene F. Kizilcec , Bo Wu

Teaching software development basics to hundreds of students in a frontal setting is cost-efficient and thus still common in universities. However, in a large lecture hall, students can easily get bored, distracted, and disengaged. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Walid Maalej

Incorporating ethics into computing education has become a priority for the SIGCSE community. Many computing departments and educators have contributed to this endeavor by creating standalone computing ethics courses or integrating ethics…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Jessie J. Smith , Blakeley H. Payne , Shamika Klassen , Dylan Thomas Doyle , Casey Fiesler

Significant obstacles prevent large, university-level, introductory physics courses from effectively teaching problem-solving skills. We describe our program for integrating three internet-based "teaching-while-quizzing" tools to address…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-06-26 David Toback , Andreas Mershin , Irina Novikova

Accessibility education has been rarely incorporated into the high school curricula. This is a missed opportunity to equip next-generation software designers and decision-makers with knowledge, awareness, and empathy regarding accessibility…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou , Chunyu Liu , Jingwen Shan , Devorah Kletenik , Rachel F. Adler

The recent adoption of artificial intelligence in socio-technical systems raises concerns about the black-box nature of the resulting decisions in fields such as hiring, finance, admissions, etc. If data subjects -- such as job applicants,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Kaustav Bhattacharjee , Jun Yuan , Aritra Dasgupta

Computer-based tests (CBTs) play an important role in the professional career of any person. Universities use CBTs for admissions. Further, many large courses use CBTs for evaluation and grading. Almost all software companies use CBTs to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Pawan Kr Patel , Amey Karkare

The assessment of source code in university education is a central and important task for lecturers of programming courses. In doing so, educators are confronted with growing numbers of students having increasingly diverse prerequisites, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Clemens Sauerwein , Tobias Antensteiner , Stefan Oppl , Iris Groher , Alexander Meschtscherjakov , Philipp Zech , Ruth Breu

Providing feedback on programming assignments is a tedious task for the instructor, and even impossible in large Massive Open Online Courses with thousands of students. Previous research has suggested that program repair techniques can be…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Sumit Gulwani , Ivan Radiček , Florian Zuleger

Coding forms a key part of computer science education in universities. As part of this education, Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) are essential tools for coding. However, it is currently unknown how the design of an IDE's…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Luke Halpin , Phillip Benachour , Tracy Hall , Ann-Marie Houghton , Emily Winter

Working effectively with large, existing software systems requires strong comprehension skills, yet most graduates enter the industry with little preparation for this challenge. We report early results from a pilot intervention integrated…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Mrityunjay Kumar , Venkatesh Choppella

Human-centered AI considers human experiences with AI performance. While abundant research has been helping AI achieve superhuman performance either by fully automatic or weak supervision learning, fewer endeavors are experimenting with how…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Yilei Zeng , Jiali Duan , Yang Li , Emilio Ferrara , Lerrel Pinto , C. -C. Jay Kuo , Stefanos Nikolaidis

Plagiarism in introductory programming courses is an enormous challenge for both students and institutions. For students, relying on the work of others too early in their academic development can make it impossible to acquire necessary…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Simon J. Cohen , Michael J. Martin , Chance A. Shipley , Abhishek Kumar , Andrew R. Cohen

The ability to categorize problems is a measure of expertise in a domain. In order to help students learn effectively, instructors and teaching assistants (TAs) should have pedagogical content knowledge. They must be aware of the prior…

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