3 papers
cs.CY2026
Investigating the Presence and Development of Student Instructor Preferences in a Large-Scale CS1 Course
Yiqiu Zhou, Luc Paquette, Geoffrey Challen
Prior research has established the importance of student instructor preferences and identified various influencing factors. However, the dynamics of how student instructor preferen…
cs.CY2026
Implementation of Split Deadlines in a Large CS1 Course
Hongxuan Chen, Ang Li, Geoffrey Challen +1
Office hour utilization in computer science courses can spike near deadlines, producing long wait times, frustrated students, and overworked staff. To address this problem, a large…
cs.CY2026
Accelerating Accurate Assignment Authoring Using Solution-Generated Autograders
Geoffrey Challen, Ben Nordick
Students learning to program benefit from access to large numbers of practice problems. Autograders are commonly used to support programming questions by providing quick feedback o…