Students

Akpanoko, C. E., Ashwin, T. S., Cordell, G., & Biswas, G. (2024). Investigating the Relations between Students’ Affective States and the Coherence in their Activities in Open-Ended Learning Environments, 511-517. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12729872 Open-ended learning environments (OELEs) are educational settings that encourage students to explore,… Read More

Naseri, Mohammad Yunus, Snyder, Caitlin, Biswas, Gautam, Henrick, Erin C., Hotchkiss, Erin R., Jha, Manoj Kumar, Jiang, Steven, Kern, Emily C., Lohani, Vinod K., Marston, Landon T., Vanags, C. P., & Xia, Kang. (2025). Student and instructor perceptions of data science integration into science and engineering courses. European Journal… Read More

Fang, Zihan, Li, Jiliang, Liang, Anda, Bai, Gina R., & Huang, Yu. (2025). A Comparative Study on ChatGPT and Checklist as Support Tools for Unit Testing Education. Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1145/3696630.3727244 Testing is an essential… Read More

Davalos, Eduardo, Zhang, Yike, Srivastava, Namrata, Salas, Jorge Alberto, McFadden, Sara E., Cho, Sun-joo, Biswas, Gautam, & Goodwin, Amanda P. (2025). “LLMs as educational analysts: Transforming multimodal data traces into actionable reading assessment reports.” In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 15878, pp. 191-204). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98417-4_14… Read More

Ashwin, T. S., Sanda, Nihar, Timalsina, Umesh, & Biswas, Gautam. (2025). “Challenges of applying computer vision for emotion detection in educational settings: A study on bias.” In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 15882, pp. 388-395). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98465-5_49 Understanding students’ emotions is important for creating… Read More

Roy, Ethan, Harriott, Emily M., Nguyen, Tin Q., Richie-Halford, Adam, Rokem, Ariel, Cutting, Laurie E., & Yeatman, Jason D. (2025). Development of the arcuate fasciculus is linked to learning gains in reading. *Imaging Neuroscience, 3*, imag_a_00542. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00542 Previous research has explored how the structure… Read More

Mason, Madison Lee, Vatral, Caleb, Cohn, Clayton, Davalos, Eduardo, Jessee, Mary Ann, Biswas, Gautam, & Levin, Daniel T. (2025). Eye movements as predictors of student experiences during nursing simulation learning events. *Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 10*(1), 37. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-025-00640-7   The “eye-mind… Read More

Zhang, Ningyu, & Biswas, Gautam. (2019). Defining and assessing students’ computational thinking in a learning by modeling environment. In *Computational Thinking Education* (pp. 203-221). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6528-7_12 Researchers in learning sciences have suggested that there is a strong connection between learning STEM subjects… Read More

Basu, Satabdi; Rachmatullah, Arif; McElhaney, Kevin; Alozie, Nonye; Yang, Hui; Hutchins, Nicole; Biswas, Gautam; Mills, Kelly. “A comparison of computational practices and student challenges across three types of computational modeling activities integrating science and engineering.” Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL (2024): 1778-1781. https://repository.isls.org//handle/1/10808… Read More

McElhaney, Kevin W.; Basu, Satabdi; McBride, Elizabeth; Hutchins, Nicole; Biswas, Gautam. “Design and implementation of a week-long, high school curriculum unit integrating physics and computational modeling.” Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL (2023): 497-504. https://repository.isls.org//handle/1/10289  Getting students involved in computational modeling (CM)—where… Read More