David H. Smith

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most citedMining Hierarchies with Conviction: Constructing the CS1 Skill Hierarchy with Pairwise Comparisons over Skill Distributions

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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…

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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…