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most citedCode Generation Based Grading: Evaluating an Auto-grading Mechanism for "Explain-in-Plain-English" Questions

2 citations · 2 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CY2026

Consistently Good vs. Occasionally Great: A Rubric for Open-Ended Feedback Quality from Humans and Machines

Binglin Chen, Rajarshi Haldar, Max Fowler +2

Providing high-quality feedback on student work is essential for learning, yet delivering such feedback at scale remains challenging. In this paper, we focus on feedback for open-e…

cs.CY2026

Automated Grading of Handwritten Mathematics Using Vision-Capable LLMs

Jacob Levine, Miguel Aenlle, Craig Zilles +2

Automated grading systems have enabled scalable assessment for many response types, but handwritten mathematics remains a barrier due to the complexity of multi-step solutions. Vis…

cs.CY2025

Counting the Trees in the Forest: Evaluating Prompt Segmentation for Classifying Code Comprehension Level

David H. Smith, Max Fowler, Paul Denny +1

Reading and understanding code are fundamental skills for novice programmers, and especially important with the growing prevalence of AI-generated code and the need to evaluate its…

cs.CY2025

ReDefining Code Comprehension: Function Naming as a Mechanism for Evaluating Code Comprehension

David H. Smith, Max Fowler, Paul Denny +1

"Explain in Plain English" (EiPE) questions are widely used to assess code comprehension skills but are challenging to grade automatically. Recent approaches like Code Generation B…

cs.CY2023★ 2 cited

Code Generation Based Grading: Evaluating an Auto-grading Mechanism for "Explain-in-Plain-English" Questions

David H. Smith, Craig Zilles

Comprehending and elucidating the purpose of code is often cited as being a key learning objective within introductory programming courses. To address this objective ``Explain-in-P…