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Aug 2026
Understanding Student Effectiveness with AI Chatbots in Introductory Programming Education: An Interaction Analysis Study
Overall, interaction quality, not mere usage, appears to drive productive persistence, highlighting the importance of minimizing false negatives and encouraging Socratic scaffolding in educational chatbot design and deployment.
Rubaina Khan, Joshua Siderius, Kyle James Ross et al.
· Proceedings of the Canadian... · 0 citations