Alexandra Vassar

18 papers Journal 6Unranked 12
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
AI Literacy, Safety Awareness, and STEM Career Aspirations of Australian Secondary Students: Evaluating the Impact of Workshop Interventions.
CoRR
Christian Bergh, Alexandra Vassar, Natasha Banks, Jessica Xu, Jake Renzella
2026 — conf
CS Teaching Assistant Perceptions on LLM-Generated Faded Worked Examples for Feedback Training.
SIGCSE (1)
Justin T. Gonzaga, Alexandra Vassar, Yuchao Jiang
2026 — conf
Fine-Tuning Open-Source Models as a Viable Alternative to Proprietary LLMs for Explaining Compiler Messages.
SIGCSE (1)
Lorenzo Lee Solano, Charles Koutcheme, Juho Leinonen, Alexandra Vassar, Jake Renzella
2026 — conf
Microcontent in Action: How CS1 Students Use Lecture Snippets to Engage with Fundamental Programming Concepts.
SIGCSE (2)
Owen Tang, Jake Renzella, Alexandra Vassar
2025 — conf
Building Global AI Literacy: Preparing Teachers for the Future of AI-Driven Classrooms.
SIGCSE (2)
Jake Renzella, Natasha Banks, Alexandra Vassar
2025 — conf
Compiler-Integrated, Conversational AI for Debugging CS1 Programs.
SIGCSE (1)
Jake Renzella, Alexandra Vassar, Lorenzo Lee Solano, Andrew Taylor
2025 — conf
Empowering CS1 Educators: Enhancing Automated Feedback Instruction with Cognitive Load Theory.
SIGCSE (2)
Justin T. Gonzaga, Yuchao Jiang, Alexandra Vassar
2025 J jnl
Narrowing the Gap: Supervised Fine-Tuning of Open-Source LLMs as a Viable Alternative to Proprietary Models for Pedagogical Tools.
CoRR
Lorenzo Lee Solano, Charles Koutcheme, Juho Leinonen, Alexandra Vassar, Jake Renzella
2025 J jnl
Supervised Fine-Tuning LLMs to Behave as Pedagogical Agents in Programming Education.
CoRR
Emily Ross, Yuval Kansal, Jake Renzella, Alexandra Vassar, Andrew Taylor
2024 — conf
DCC Sidekick: Helping Novices Solve Programming Errors Through a Conversational Explanation Interface.
SIGCSE (2)
Lorenzo Lee Solano, Jake Renzella, Alexandra Vassar
2024 — conf
Exploring the Cognitive Load Effects of Diverse Virtual Reality Interaction Methods in Interactive Educational Platforms.
ISMAR-Adjunct
Ali Darejeh, Manpreet Mondal, Nadine Marcus, Alexandra Vassar
2024 — conf
Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Better Programming Error Explanations.
Koli Calling
Alexandra Vassar, Jake Renzella, Emily Ross, Andrew Taylor
2024 J jnl
Scaling CS1 Support with Compiler-Integrated Conversational AI.
CoRR
Jake Renzella, Alexandra Vassar, Lorenzo Lee Solano, Andrew Taylor
2024 J jnl
Towards Pedagogical LLMs with Supervised Fine Tuning for Computing Education.
CoRR
Alexandra Vassar, Jake Renzella, Emily Ross, Andrew Taylor
2024 — conf
dcc -help: Transforming the Role of the Compiler by Generating Context-Aware Error Explanations with Large Language Models.
SIGCSE (1)
Andrew Taylor, Alexandra Vassar, Jake Renzella, Hammond Pearce
2023 — conf
Foundations First: Improving C's Viability in Introductory Programming Courses with the Debugging C Compiler.
SIGCSE (1)
Andrew Taylor, Jake Renzella, Alexandra Vassar
2023 J jnl
Integrating Large Language Models into the Debugging C Compiler for generating contextual error explanations.
CoRR
Andrew Taylor, Alexandra Vassar, Jake Renzella, Hammond Pearce
2014 — conf
The Virtual Design Workshop - An Online Adaptive Resource for Teaching Design in Engineering.
CSEDU (1)
Alexandra Vassar, B. Gangadhara Prusty, Nadine Marcus, Robin Ford