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Providing personalized assistance at scale is a long-standing challenge for computing educators, but a new generation of tools powered by large language models (LLMs) offers immense promise. Such tools can, in theory, provide on-demand help…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Brad Sheese , Mark Liffiton , Jaromir Savelka , Paul Denny

This study explores the classroom implementation of an AI-powered grading platform in K-12 settings through a co-design pilot with 19 teachers. We combine platform usage logs, surveys, and qualitative interviews to examine how teachers use…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Zewei Tian , Alex Liu , Lief Esbenshade , Shawon Sarkar , Zachary Zhang , Kevin He , Min Sun

Generative AI (genAI) is being used in education for different purposes. From the teachers' perspective, genAI can support activities such as learning design. However, there is a need to study the impact of genAI on the teachers' agency.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Thomas B Frøsig , Margarida Romero

AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively supervise AI remains unclear. Novice…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Judy Hanwen Shen , Alex Tamkin

Recent AI code assistants have significantly improved their ability to process more complex contexts and generate entire codebases based on a textual description, compared to the popular snippet-level generation. These codebase AI…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Philipp Eibl , Sadra Sabouri , Souti Chattopadhyay

Software engineering students often struggle to appreciate empirical methods and hypothesis-driven inquiry, especially when taught in theoretical terms. This experience report explores whether grounding empirical learning in hype-driven…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Marvin Wyrich , Norman Peitek , Kallistos Weis , Sven Apel

Introductory programming courses aim to teach students to write code independently. However, transitioning from studying worked examples to generating their own code is often difficult and frustrating for students, especially those with…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Xinying Hou , Barbara J. Ericson , Xu Wang

Introductory programming courses often emphasize mastering syntax and basic constructs before progressing to more complex and interesting programs. This bottom-up approach can be frustrating for novices, shifting the focus away from problem…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Chris Kerslake , Paul Denny , David H Smith , James Prather , Juho Leinonen , Andrew Luxton-Reilly , Stephen MacNeil

The ubiquity of technologies like ChatGPT has raised concerns about their impact on student writing, particularly regarding reduced learner agency and superficial engagement with content. While standalone chat-based LLMs often produce…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Momin N. Siddiqui , Roy Pea , Hari Subramonyam

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

As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become increasingly embedded in software development workflows, questions persist about their true impact on developer productivity and experience. This paper presents findings from a mixed-methods…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Brian Houck , Travis Lowdermilk , Cody Beyer , Steven Clarke , Ben Hanrahan

Educating students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds is challenging. In this article, we report on our interdisciplinary course coding interaction and design (Coding IxD), which is designed for computer science and design students…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Peter Sörries , Judith Glaser , Claudia Müller-Birn , Thomas Ness , Carola Zwick

In recent years, there has been a stimulating discussion on how artificial intelligence (AI) can support the science and engineering of intelligent educational applications. Many studies in the field are proposing actionable data mining…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Gianni Fenu , Roberta Galici , Mirko Marras

Artificial intelligence (AI) tutors have become increasingly popular in learning environments. In this study, we propose an AI agent prototype framework for exploring AI-assisted learning with temporal interaction patterns, multiple…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yiyao Yang , Yasemin Gulbahar

Large-enrollment university courses face persistent challenges in providing timely and scalable instructional support. While generative AI holds promise, its effective use depends on reliability and pedagogical alignment. We present a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jérémy Barghorn , Anna Sotnikova , Sacha Friedli , Antoine Bosselut

This is the study that presents an AI-Python-based chatbot that helps students to learn programming by demonstrating solutions to such problems as debugging errors, solving syntax problems or converting abstract theoretical concepts to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Sayed Mahbub Hasan Amiri , Md Mainul Islam

Emphasizing problem formulation in AI literacy activities with children is vital, yet we lack empirical studies on their structure and affordances. We propose that participatory design involving teachable machines facilitates problem…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Utkarsh Dwivedi , Salma Elsayed-Ali , Elizabeth Bonsignore , Hernisa Kacorri

In order to study graduate teaching assistants (TAs) beliefs and values about the design of instructor problem solutions, twenty-four TAs were provided with different solutions and asked to discuss their preferences for prominent solution…

Physics Education · Physics 2016-02-23 Shih-Yin Lin , Chandralekha Singh , William Mamudi , Charles R. Henderson , Edit Yerushalmi

Recent In-IDE AI coding assistant tools (ACATs) like GitHub Copilot have significantly impacted developers' coding habits. While some studies have examined their effectiveness, there lacks in-depth investigation into the actual assistance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Xin Tan , Xiao Long , Xianjun Ni , Yinghao Zhu , Jing Jiang , Li Zhang

The use of automatic grading tools has become nearly ubiquitous in large undergraduate programming courses, and recent work has focused on improving the quality of automatically generated feedback. However, there is a relative lack of data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Abe Leite , Saúl A. Blanco