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LLMs are reshaping education, with students increasingly relying on them for learning. Implemented using general-purpose models, these systems are likely to give away the answers, potentially undermining conceptual understanding and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Anubhav Jangra , Smaranda Muresan

As generative AI systems are integrated into educational settings, students often encounter AI-generated output while working through learning tasks, either by requesting help or through integrated tools. Trust in AI can influence how…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Griffin Pitts , Neha Rani , Weedguet Mildort

Addressing the challenge of generating personalized feedback for programming assignments is demanding due to several factors, like the complexity of code syntax or different ways to correctly solve a task. In this experimental study, we…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Maciej Pankiewicz , Ryan S. Baker

Digital education has gained popularity in the last decade, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. With the improving capabilities of large language models to reason and communicate with users, envisioning intelligent tutoring systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Anubhav Jangra , Jamshid Mozafari , Adam Jatowt , Smaranda Muresan

Generative AI has the potential to enhance education by providing personalized feedback to students at scale. Recent work has proposed techniques to improve AI-generated programming hints and has evaluated their performance based on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Tung Phung , Mengyan Wu , Heeryung Choi , Gustavo Soares , Sumit Gulwani , Adish Singla , Christopher Brooks

Computer aided formative assessment can be used to enhance a learning process, for instance by providing feedback. There are many design choices for delivering feedback, that lead to a feedback strategy. In an informative feedback strategy,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Gerben van der Hoek , Bastiaan Heeren , Rogier Bos , Paul Drijvers , Johan Jeuring

Intelligent tutoring systems can support students in solving multi-step tasks by providing hints regarding what to do next. However, engineering such next-step hints manually or via an expert model becomes infeasible if the space of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Benjamin Paaßen , Barbara Hammer , Thomas William Price , Tiffany Barnes , Sebastian Gross , Niels Pinkwart

The paper extends an existing Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) that supports students' learning via AI-driven personalized hints and can generate explanations to justify why/how the hints were generated. In this work, we investigate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Vedant Bahel , Harshinee Sriram , Cristina Conati

Feedback is essential for learning, but its effectiveness relies heavily on how well it engages students in the educational process. Generative AI offers novel opportunities to efficiently produce rich, formative feedback, ranging from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jie Cao , Chloe Qianhui Zhao , Christian Schunn , Elizabeth A. McLaughlin , Jionghao Lin , Kenneth R. Koedinger

We investigate how automated, data-driven, personalized feedback in a large-scale intelligent tutoring system (ITS) improves student learning outcomes. We propose a machine learning approach to generate personalized feedback, which takes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Ekaterina Kochmar , Dung Do Vu , Robert Belfer , Varun Gupta , Iulian Vlad Serban , Joelle Pineau

Data storytelling workflows ask learners to integrate analytical, design, and narrative skills, but instructors rarely have the capacity to provide detailed feedback at each step. Computational and AI-assisted storytelling offers…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jennifer Posada , Taha Hassan , Lujie Karen Chen , Louise Yarnall , Jiaqi Gong

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a ubiquitous part of society, but a key challenge exists in ensuring that humans are equipped with the required critical thinking and AI literacy skills to interact with machines effectively by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Antonette Shibani , Simon Knight , Kirsty Kitto , Ajanie Karunanayake , Simon Buckingham Shum

We examined the efficacy of AI-assisted learning in an introductory programming course at the university level by using a GPT-4 model to generate personalized hints for compiler errors within a platform for automated assessment of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Maciej Pankiewicz , Ryan S. Baker

The growing integration of generative AI in higher education is transforming how students write, learn, and engage with knowledge. As AI tools become more integrated into classrooms, there is an urgent need for pedagogical approaches that…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Xinran Zhu , Cong Wang , Duane Searsmith

The potential of Generative AI (GenAI) for generating feedback in computing education has been the subject of numerous studies. However, there is still limited research on how computing students engage with this feedback and to what extent…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Sven Jacobs , Maurice Kempf , Natalie Kiesler

A Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) approach leverages generative AI to enhance personalized learning by directly integrating student feedback into AI-generated solutions. Students critique and modify AI responses using predefined feedback tags,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Bhavishya Tarun , Haoze Du , Dinesh Kannan , Edward F. Gehringer

An Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) has been shown to improve students' learning outcomes by providing a personalized curriculum that addresses individual needs of every student. However, despite the effectiveness and efficiency that ITS…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Byungsoo Kim , Hongseok Suh , Jaewe Heo , Youngduck Choi

Within intelligent tutoring systems, considerable research has investigated hints, including how to generate data-driven hints, what hint content to present, and when to provide hints for optimal learning outcomes. However, less attention…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Mehak Maniktala , Christa Cody , Tiffany Barnes , Min Chi

Generative AI is reshaping higher education programming through vibe coding, where students collaborate with AI via natural language rather than writing code line-by-line. We conceptualize this practice as help-seeking, analyzing 19,418…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Daiana Rinja , Eduardo Araujo Oliveira , Sonsoles López-Pernas , Mohammed Saqr , Marcus Specht , Kamila Misiejuk

Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT now provide novice programmers with instant, personalized support and are reshaping computing education. While a growing body of work examines AI's immediate impacts, longitudinal evidence remains…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Boxuan Ma , Huiyong Li , Gen Li , Li Chen , Cheng Tang , Atsushi Shimada , Shin'ichi Konomi