5 papers
Observing Without Doing: Pseudo-Apprenticeship Patterns in Student LLM Use
Jade Hak, Nathaniel Lam Johnson, Matin Amoozadeh +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have quickly become part of student programmers' toolkits, whether allowed by instructors or not. This paper examines how introductory…
Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities of AI-assisted Codebase Generation
Philipp Eibl, Sadra Sabouri, Souti Chattopadhyay
Recent AI code assistants have significantly improved their ability to process more complex contexts and generate entire codebases based on a textual description, compared to the p…
ELI-Why: Evaluating the Pedagogical Utility of Language Model Explanations
Brihi Joshi, Keyu He, Sahana Ramnath +5
Language models today are widely used in education, yet their ability to tailor responses for learners with varied informational needs and knowledge backgrounds remains under-explo…
From Prompts to Propositions: A Logic-Based Lens on Student-LLM Interactions
Ali Alfageeh, Sadegh AlMahdi Kazemi Zarkouei, Daye Nam +9
Background and Context. The increasing integration of large language models (LLMs) in computing education presents an emerging challenge in understanding how students use LLMs and…
Generating Contextually-Relevant Navigation Instructions for Blind and Low Vision People
Zain Merchant, Abrar Anwar, Emily Wang +2
Navigating unfamiliar environments presents significant challenges for blind and low-vision (BLV) individuals. In this work, we construct a dataset of images and goals across diffe…