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Rubric Is All You Need: Improving LLM-based Code Evaluation With Question-Specific Rubrics

Research Papers When: Tue 5 Aug 2025 11:20 - 11:45 People: Aditya Pathak, Rachit Gandhi, Vaibhav Uttam, Arnav Ramamoorthy, Pratyush Ghosh, Shreyash Verma, Aditya Mittal, Aashna Ased, Chirag Khatri, Yashwanth Nakka, Aaryan Raj Jindal, Devansh, Jagat Sesh Challa, Dhruv Kumar

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Understanding and Developing Educational Tools in the LLM Era

Doctoral Consortium When: Mon 4 Aug 2025 14:50 - 15:40 People: Jason Weber

… development across all attempts at a single coding assignment differ before pre …

A Generalized Framework for Describing Question Randomization

Research Papers When: Wed 6 Aug 2025 11:20 - 11:45 People: Romina Mahinpei, Iris Xu, Steve Wolfman, Firas Moosvi

… The rise of online assessments has motivated the development of randomized question banks, with randomization referring to generating variants of a question. Currently, questions are described as randomized or not. However, not all

Co-Designing With Teachers: A Student-Centered Approach to Integrating Computational Thinking in Non-CS K–12 Classrooms

Doctoral Consortium When: Mon 4 Aug 2025 10:30 - 11:20 People: Vivek Sabanwar

… Computational thinking (CT) is increasingly recognized as a foundational skill for all learners, yet in many cases, especially in non-computer science (non-CS) classrooms, teachers struggle in meaningful CT integration. While codesign …

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Syntax Exercises in an Introductory Python Course

Research Papers When: Wed 6 Aug 2025 12:10 - 12:35 People: Kathleen Isenegger, Salma El Otmani, John Edwards, Colleen M. Lewis

… to a course, are beneficial for all students, and perhaps especially helpful … of their weekly homework, all students completed practice programming problems …

Do CS Undergraduates Show Evidence of a Security Mindset without Formal Coursework? An Exploratory Qualitative Study

Research Papers When: Mon 4 Aug 2025 09:40 - 10:05 People: Michelle Jensen, Matthew Berland, Rahul Chatterjee

… With the increase in computer security threats, it is imperative that \textbf{all} CS students learn the fundamental principles of computer security, equipping them to handle the ever-evolving threat landscape. One of these principles …

Fostering Psychological Safety for Learning in Neurodiverse Software Teams

Doctoral Consortium When: Mon 4 Aug 2025 14:50 - 15:40 People: Ren Butler

… of these design principles through an experiment with majority, minority and all

Needles in a Haystack: Student Struggles with Working on Large Code Bases

Research Papers When: Mon 4 Aug 2025 10:05 - 10:30 People: Anshul Shah, Thomas Rexin, Anya Chernova, Gonzalo Allen-Perez, William G. Griswold, Gerald Soosairaj

… ) find all parts of the relevant code, and 4) abandon irrelevant lines …

Surveying Upper-Secondary Teachers on Programming Misconceptions

Research Papers When: Tue 5 Aug 2025 10:05 - 10:30 People: Luca Chiodini, Joey Bevilacqua, Matthias Hauswirth

… .** When teachers hold misconceptions, all of their students can be affected …

Predicting Middle and High School Students' Intentions to Pursue CS from their Communal and Agentic Goal Affordances and Endorsements

Research Papers When: Mon 4 Aug 2025 14:00 - 14:25 People: Joseph Tise, Monica McGill

… significantly higher than female students, controlling for all other factors …