My ai wants to know if this will be on the exam: Testing openai's codex on cs2 programming exercises

J Finnie-Ansley, P Denny, A Luxton-Reilly… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
The introduction of OpenAI Codex sparked a surge of interest in the impact of generative AI
models on computing education practices. Codex is also the underlying model for GitHub …

Contextualization, authenticity, and the problem description effect

E Lovellette, DJ Bouvier, J Matta - ACM Transactions on Computing …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
In recent years, computing education researchers have investigated the impact of problem
context on students' learning and programming performance. This work continues the …

Investigating programming students problem comprehension ability and its association with learning performance

L Silva, AJ Mendes, A Gomes… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Contribution: Students' problem-understanding abilities and their relationship with
programming learning were investigated using a methodology little explored in the existing …

Quickly Producing" Isomorphic" Exercises: Quantifying the Impact of Programming Question Permutations

M Fowler, DH Smith IV, C Zilles - Proceedings of the 2024 on Innovation …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
Small, auto-gradable programming exercises provide a useful tool with which to assess
students' programming skills in introductory computer science. To reduce the time needed to …

Domain-Specific Theories of Teaching Computing: Do they Inform Practice?

L Malmi, J Sheard, J Sinclair, P Kinnunen… - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
Computing education research applies theories from the social sciences to build deep
understanding of factors that influence students' learning process in different educational …

How Do Computing Education Researchers Talk About Threats and Limitations?

K Sanders, J Vahrenhold, R McCartney - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
Background and Context: Empirical researchers have a long-standing tradition of explicitly
discussing the threats to and limitations of their research. In the past twenty years, these …

Automated Assessment: Does It Align With Teachers' Views?

H Hickman, T Bell - Proceedings of the 19th WiPSCE Conference on …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
In Aotearoa New Zealand, assessment of programming for the national NCEA standards is
carried out manually by teachers, many of whom are not experienced programmers. In an …

Play Your Cards Right: Using Quantitative Card-Sort Data to Examine Students' Pattern-Like Concepts

J Finnie-Ansley, P Denny, A Luxton-Reilly - Proceedings of the 53rd ACM …, 2022‏ - dl.acm.org
In order to transfer problem solving knowledge effectively across tasks, students must be
able to identify when two problems can be solved in similar ways. As instructors, it is helpful …