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most citedThrilled by Your Progress! Large Language Models (GPT-4) No Longer Struggle to Pass Assessments in Higher Education Programming Courses

140 citations · 527 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CY2025

AI Literacy Assessment Revisited: A Task-Oriented Approach Aligned with Real-world Occupations

Christopher Bogart, Aparna Warrier, Arav Agarwal +6

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become ubiquitous in professional contexts, there is an urgent need to equip workers, often with backgrounds outside of STEM, with the skill…

cs.CY2025

"I Like That You Have to Poke Around": Instructors on How Experiential Approaches to AI Literacy Spark Inquiry and Critical Thinking

Aparna Maya Warrier, Arav Agarwal, Jaromir Savelka +2

As artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly shapes decision-making across domains, there is a growing need to support AI literacy among learners beyond computer science. However,…

cs.CY2025

AI Literacy for Community Colleges: Instructors' Perspectives on Scenario-Based and Interactive Approaches to Teaching AI

Aparna Maya Warrier, Arav Agarwal, Jaromir Savelka +2

This research category full paper investigates how community college instructors evaluate interactive, no-code AI literacy resources designed for non-STEM learners. As artificial i…

cs.CY2025★ 5 cited

AI Technicians: Developing Rapid Occupational Training Methods for a Competitive AI Workforce

Jaromir Savelka, Can Kultur, Arav Agarwal +4

The accelerating pace of developments in Artificial Intelligence~(AI) and the increasing role that technology plays in society necessitates substantial changes in the structure of…

cs.CL2024★ 13 cited

Understanding the Role of Temperature in Diverse Question Generation by GPT-4

Arav Agarwal, Karthik Mittal, Aidan Doyle +5

We conduct a preliminary study of the effect of GPT's temperature parameter on the diversity of GPT4-generated questions. We find that using higher temperature values leads to sign…

cs.CY2023★ 118 cited

A Comparative Study of AI-Generated (GPT-4) and Human-crafted MCQs in Programming Education

Jacob Doughty, Zipiao Wan, Anishka Bompelli +12

There is a constant need for educators to develop and maintain effective up-to-date assessments. While there is a growing body of research in computing education on utilizing large…

cs.CY2023★ 1 cited

From GPT-3 to GPT-4: On the Evolving Efficacy of LLMs to Answer Multiple-choice Questions for Programming Classes in Higher Education

Jaromir Savelka, Arav Agarwal, Christopher Bogart +1

We explore the evolving efficacy of three generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) models in generating answers for multiple-choice questions (MCQ) from introductory and intermedia…

cs.AI2023★ 29 cited

Harnessing LLMs in Curricular Design: Using GPT-4 to Support Authoring of Learning Objectives

Pragnya Sridhar, Aidan Doyle, Arav Agarwal +3

We evaluated the capability of a generative pre-trained transformer (GPT-4) to automatically generate high-quality learning objectives (LOs) in the context of a practically oriente…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

MultiZoo & MultiBench: A Standardized Toolkit for Multimodal Deep Learning

Paul Pu Liang, Yiwei Lyu, Xiang Fan +4

Learning multimodal representations involves integrating information from multiple heterogeneous sources of data. In order to accelerate progress towards understudied modalities an…

cs.CL2023★ 108 cited

Can GPT-4 Support Analysis of Textual Data in Tasks Requiring Highly Specialized Domain Expertise?

Jaromir Savelka, Kevin D. Ashley, Morgan A Gray +2

We evaluated the capability of generative pre-trained transformers~(GPT-4) in analysis of textual data in tasks that require highly specialized domain expertise. Specifically, we f…

cs.CY2023★ 140 cited

Thrilled by Your Progress! Large Language Models (GPT-4) No Longer Struggle to Pass Assessments in Higher Education Programming Courses

Jaromir Savelka, Arav Agarwal, Marshall An +2

This paper studies recent developments in large language models' (LLM) abilities to pass assessments in introductory and intermediate Python programming courses at the postsecondar…

cs.AI2023★ 108 cited

Can Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) Pass Assessments in Higher Education Programming Courses?

Jaromir Savelka, Arav Agarwal, Christopher Bogart +2

We evaluated the capability of generative pre-trained transformers (GPT), to pass assessments in introductory and intermediate Python programming courses at the postsecondary level…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

Large Language Models (GPT) Struggle to Answer Multiple-Choice Questions about Code

Jaromir Savelka, Arav Agarwal, Christopher Bogart +1

We analyzed effectiveness of three generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) models in answering multiple-choice question (MCQ) assessments, often involving short snippets of code,…