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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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …