Based on our empirical studies of effective human tutoring, we developed an Intelligent
Tutoring System, iList, that helps students learn linked lists, a challenging topic in Computer …

Analogies and worked out examples are effective means of instruction in a wide variety of
learning environments. However, the extent of their effectiveness in Computer Science (CS) …

Our CS Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS), ChiQat-Tutor, aims at aiding students in
overcoming the initial difficulties in CS education, such as learning data structures. Here, we …

Analogy plays an important role in learning, but its role in teaching Computer Science has
hardly been explored. We annotated and analyzed analogy in a corpus of tutoring dialogues …

Computer Science is a difficult subject with many fundamentals to be taught, usually
involving a steep learning curve for many students. It is some of these initial challenges that …

Novice Computer Science (CS) students struggle learning recursion for reasons such as
unfamiliarity with recursive thinking and difficulty in visualizing program execution. Many …

Worked-out examples have been shown to increase learning gains over problem solving
alone. These increases are even greater in novices and those who are learning algorithmic …

The computing industry is currently facing a huge deficit in talent entering the industry. Even
though enrollment in Computer Science (CS) degrees is climbing, many students drop out …

Human tutors use analogies in their dialogues as an effective way of providing in-troductory
explanations to their students. Unfortunately, current commercial Conversational AI systems …

The study investigated the effect of using the Worked-Out Examples Teaching Approach
(WOETA) in teaching the properties of special quadrilaterals in Grade 10 geometry. South …