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Analyzing the Difficulty of Programming Assignments with Interpretable Knowledge Component Metrics
Tsvetomila Mihaylova, Jing Fan, Bita Akram +4
This research paper examines how Knowledge Components (KCs) - fine-grained concepts or skills required to solve programming tasks - can be used as interpretable signals for underst…
An Explainable AI Assistant for Introductory Programming Education: Improving Feedback Reliability with Instructor-AI Collaboration
Muntasir Hoq, Griffin Pitts, Bradford Mott +6
Active learning is widely recognized as an effective approach for improving learning outcomes in introductory programming courses. However, insufficient instructional support often…
The Missing Evaluation Axis: What 10,000 Student Submissions Reveal About AI Tutor Effectiveness
Rose Niousha, Samantha Boatright Smith, Bita Akram +5
Current Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tutoring systems (AI tutors) are primarily evaluated based on the pedagogical quality of their feedback messages. While important, pedago…
A Knowledge-Component-Based Methodology for Evaluating AI Assistants
Laryn Qi, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Taehan Kim +3
We evaluate an automatic hint generator for CS1 programming assignments powered by GPT-4, a large language model. This system provides natural language guidance about how students…
61A Bot Report: AI Assistants in CS1 Save Students Homework Time and Reduce Demands on Staff. (Now What?)
J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Laryn Qi, Björn Hartmann +2
LLM-based chatbots enable students to get immediate, interactive help on homework assignments, but even a thoughtfully-designed bot may not serve all pedagogical goals. We report h…