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cs.AI2026

AI-Generated Slides: Are They Good? Can Students Tell?

Juho Leinonen, Lisa Zhang, Arto Hellas

As generative AI (GenAI) tools become easily accessible, there is promise in using such tools to support instructors. To that end, this paper examines using GenAI to help generate…

cs.AI2026

Retrieval-Augmented Tutoring for Algorithm Tracing and Problem-Solving in AI Education

Mragisha Jain, Tirth Bhatt, Griffin Pitts +6

Students learning algorithms often need support as they interpret traces, debug reasoning errors, and apply procedures across unfamiliar problem instances. In this paper, we presen…

cs.AI2026

Teaching Language Models How to Code Like Learners: Conversational Serialization for Student Simulation

Charles Koutcheme, Juho Leinonen, Arto Hellas

Artificial students -- models that simulate how learners act and respond within educational systems -- are a promising tool for evaluating tutoring strategies and feedback mechanis…

cs.AI2024

Evaluating Language Models for Generating and Judging Programming Feedback

Charles Koutcheme, Nicola Dainese, Arto Hellas +4

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has transformed research and practice across a wide range of domains. Within the computing education research (CER) domain, LLMs have…

cs.AI2024

The Widening Gap: The Benefits and Harms of Generative AI for Novice Programmers

James Prather, Brent Reeves, Juho Leinonen +6

Novice programmers often struggle through programming problem solving due to a lack of metacognitive awareness and strategies. Previous research has shown that novices can encounte…

cs.AI2023

Exploring Iterative Enhancement for Improving Learnersourced Multiple-Choice Question Explanations with Large Language Models

Qiming Bao, Juho Leinonen, Alex Yuxuan Peng +7

Large language models exhibit superior capabilities in processing and understanding language, yet their applications in educational contexts remain underexplored. Learnersourcing e…