4 papers
Code as Anchor, Memory and Metaphor as Support: Learner Experiences with Multi-View Visualizations
Naaz Sibia, Jessica Wen, Amber Richardson +7
Program visualizations are widely used to support novice programmers, yet students often ignore or resist well-designed visual scaffolds. Research on multiple external representati…
Transforming GenAI Policy to Prompting Instruction: An RCT of Scalable Prompting Interventions in a CS1 Course
Ruiwei Xiao, Runlong Ye, Xinying Hou +4
Despite universal GenAI adoption, students cannot distinguish task performance from actual learning and lack skills to leverage AI for learning, leading to worse exam performance w…
Multi-agent Self-triage System with Medical Flowcharts
Yujia Liu, Sophia Yu, Hongyue Jin +8
Online health resources and large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as a first point of contact for medical decision-making, yet their reliability in healthcare remains…
From Code to Concept: Evaluating Multiple Coordinated Views in Introductory Programming
Naaz Sibia, Valeria Ramirez Osorio, Jessica Wen +5
Novice programmers often struggle to understand how code executes and to form the abstract mental models necessary for effective problem-solving, challenges that are amplified in l…