Timely, personalized feedback is essential for students learning programming. LLM-
powered tools like ChatGPT offer instant support, but reveal direct answers with code, which …

Context. Computing Education Research (CER) is critical to help the computing education
community and policy makers support the increasing population of students who need to …

Cognitive Apprenticeship (CA) is an instructional model that outlines how experts can
transfer their skills and knowledge to a learner for reasoning-based tasks, such as reading …

Socratic questioning is a teaching strategy where the student is guided towards solving a
problem on their own, instead of being given the solution directly. In this paper, we introduce …

When students in CS1 (Introductory Programming) write erroneous code, course staff can
use automated tools to provide various types of helpful feedback. In this paper, we focus on …

Teaching assistants (TAs) are heavily used in computer science courses as a way to handle
high enrollment and still being able to offer students individual tutoring and detailed …

Computer science instructors have one of the most crucial roles in training and making
educational materials. However, they face many challenges everyday that make it difficult to …

When employing the Socratic method of teaching, instructors guide students toward solving
a problem on their own rather than providing the solution directly. While this strategy can …

The use of automatic grading tools has become nearly ubiquitous in large undergraduate
programming courses, and recent work has focused on improving the quality of …

Teaching assistants (TAs) are often used in computer science (CS) courses to conduct
tutorials in smaller groups and to be able to provide students with one-to-one help sessions …