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Bita Akram

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

41

Venues

9

Active years

2015–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

41 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026ACLAutomated Knowledge Component Generation and Interpretable Knowledge Tracing in Coding Problems.Zhangqi Duan, Nigel Fernandez, Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan, Mohammad Hassany, Rafaella Sampaio de Alencar, Peter Brusilovsky, Bita Akram, Andrew Lan
2026AIEDAn Explainable AI Assistant for Introductory Programming Education: Improving Feedback Reliability with Instructor-AI Collaboration.Muntasir Hoq, Griffin Pitts, Bradford W. Mott, Seung Y. Lee, Jessica Vandenberg, Shuyin Jiao, Narges Norouzi, James C. Lester, Bita Akram
2026AIEDThe Missing Evaluation Axis: What 10,000 Student Submissions Reveal About AI Tutor Effectiveness.Rose Niousha, Samantha Boatright Smith, Bita Akram, Peter Brusilovsky, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen, John DeNero, Narges Norouzi
2026AIEDDemocratizing Foundations of Problem-Solving with AI: A Breadth-First Search Curriculum for Middle School Students.Griffin Pitts, Kimia Fazeli, Tirth Bhatt, Jennifer L. Albert, Marnie Hill, Tiffany Barnes, Shiyan Jiang, Bita Akram
2026SIGCSEINSIGHT: An Explainable, Instructor-Guided AI Assistant for Active Learning in CS1.Muntasir Hoq, Jessica Vandenberg, Seung Y. Lee, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester, Narges Norouzi, Shuyin Jiao, Bita Akram
2026SIGCSEAutomated Program Repair of Uncompilable Student Code.Griffin Pitts, Aum Pandya, Darsh Rank, Muntasir Hoq, Tirth Bhatt, Bita Akram
2026SIGCSELeveraging an LLM-Driven Feedback System to Support Computational Thinking and AI-Integrated STEM Learning.Ananya Rao, Krish Piryani, Shiyan Jiang, Tiffany Barnes, Jennifer L. Albert, Marnie Hill, Bita Akram
2026SIGCSEKnowledge Component-Driven Alignment of CS1 Textbooks and Exercises.Samantha Boatright Smith, Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan, Anurata Prabha Hridi, Rafaella Sampaio de Alencar, Bita Akram, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen, Peter Brusilovsky, Narges Norouzi
2025EDM9th Educational Data Mining in Computer Science Education (CSEDM) Workshop.Bita Akram, Yang Shi, Peter Brusilovsky, Thomas W. Price, Ken Koedinger, Paulo Carvalho, Shan Zhang, Andrew S. Lan, Juho Leinonen
2025EDMExplainable AI in the Loop: An Instructor-Transformer Collaboration for Improving Explainability and Reliability of Feedback in Introductory Programming Classrooms.Muntasir Hoq, Bradford W. Mott, Seung Y. Lee, Jessica Vandenberg, Narges Norouzi, James C. Lester, Bita Akram
2025EDMAutomated Identification of Logical Errors in Programs: Advancing Scalable Analysis of Student Misconceptions.Muntasir Hoq, Ananya Rao, Reisha Jaishankar, Krish Piryani, Nithya Janapati, Jessica Vandenberg, Bradford W. Mott, Narges Norouzi, James C. Lester, Bita Akram
2025EDMPrivacy-Preserving Distributed Link Predictions Among Peers in Online Classrooms Using Federated Learning.Anurata Prabha Hridi, Muntasir Hoq, Zhikai Gao, Collin Lynch, Rajeev Sahay, Seyyedali Hosseinalipour, Bita Akram
2025EDMExample Explorers and Persistent Finishers: Exploring Student Practice Behaviors in a Python Practice System.Allison Poh, Anurata Prabha Hridi, Jordan Barria-Pineda, Peter Brusilovsky, Bita Akram
2025EDMLeveraging Large Language Models to Promote AI-Infused STEM Problem-Solving for Middle School Students.Ananya Rao, Krish Piryani, Shiyan Jiang, Tiffany Barnes, Jennifer L. Albert, Marnie Hill, Bita Akram
2025SIGCSEAn Automated Approach to Recommending Relevant Worked Examples for Programming Problems.Muntasir Hoq, Atharva Patil, Kamil Akhuseyinoglu, Peter Brusilovsky, Bita Akram
2025SIGCSELLM-KCI: Leveraging Large Language Models to Identify Programming Knowledge Components.Rose Niousha, Abigail O'Neill, Ethan Chen, Vedansh Malhotra, Bita Akram, Narges Norouzi
2024EDM8th Educational Data Mining in Computer Science Education (CSEDM) Workshop.Yang Shi, Peter Brusilovsky, Bita Akram, Thomas W. Price, Juho Leinonen, Kenneth R. Koedinger, Andrew S. Lan
2024EDMAutomated Identification of Relevant Worked Examples for Programming Problems.Muntasir Hoq, Atharva Patil, Kamil Akhuseyinoglu, Bita Akram, Peter Brusilovsky
2024SIGCSEAI in Computing Education from Research to Practice.Bita Akram, Juho Leinonen, Narges Norouzi, James Prather, Lisa Zhang
2024SIGCSEDetecting ChatGPT-Generated Code Submissions in a CS1 Course Using Machine Learning Models.Muntasir Hoq, Yang Shi, Juho Leinonen, Damilola Babalola, Collin F. Lynch, Thomas W. Price, Bita Akram
2024SIGCSETowards Attention-Based Automatic Misconception Identification in Introductory Programming Courses.Muntasir Hoq, Jessica Vandenberg, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester, Narges Norouzi, Bita Akram
2024SIGCSEUse of Large Language Models for Extracting Knowledge Components in CS1 Programming Exercises.Rose Niousha, Muntasir Hoq, Bita Akram, Narges Norouzi
2023AIEDDetecting ChatGPT-Generated Code in a CS1 Course.Muntasir Hoq, Yang Shi, Juho Leinonen, Damilola Babalola, Collin F. Lynch, Bita Akram
2023CIKMSANN: Programming Code Representation Using Attention Neural Network with Optimized Subtree Extraction.Muntasir Hoq, Sushanth Reddy Chilla, Melika Ahmadi Ranjbar, Peter Brusilovsky, Bita Akram
2023EDMAnalysis of an Explainable Student Performance Prediction Model in an Introductory Programming Course.Muntasir Hoq, Peter Brusilovsky, Bita Akram
2023ICERInvestigation of Students' Learning, Interest, and Career Aspirations in an Integrated Science and Artificial Intelligence Learning Environment (i-SAIL).Bita Akram, Shiyan Jiang
2023ICERAnalysis of Students' Problem-Solving Behavior when Using Copilot for Open-Ended Programming Projects.Bita Akram, Ahmed Magooda
2023SIGCSEDo Intentions to Persist Predict Short-Term Computing Course Enrollments: A Scale Development, Validation, and Reliability Analysis.Rachel Harred, Tiffany Barnes, Susan R. Fisk, Bita Akram, Thomas W. Price, Spencer Yoder
2022AAAITowards an AI-Infused Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Middle-Grade Classrooms.Bita Akram, Spencer Yoder, Cansu Tatar, Sankalp Boorugu, Ifeoluwa Aderemi, Shiyan Jiang
2022EDM6th Educational Data Mining in Computer Science Education (CSEDM) Workshop.Bita Akram, Thomas W. Price, Yang Shi, Peter Brusilovsky, Sharon I-Han Hsiao
2022ICERGender, Self-Assessment, and Persistence in Computing: How gender differences in self-assessed ability reduce women's persistence in computer science.Cynthia Hunt, Spencer Yoder, Taylor Comment, Thomas W. Price, Bita Akram, Lina Battestilli, Tiffany Barnes, Susan R. Fisk
2022ITiCSEIncreasing Students' Persistence in Computer Science through a Lightweight Scalable Intervention.Bita Akram, Susan R. Fisk, Spencer Yoder, Cynthia Hunt, Thomas W. Price, Lina Battestilli, Tiffany Barnes
2022SIGCSEAutomating Personalized Feedback to Improve Students' Persistence in Computing.Susan R. Fisk, Cynthia Hunt, Lina Battestilli, Bita Akram, Tiffany Barnes, Thomas W. Price, Spencer Yoder
2022SIGCSEExploring Design Choices to Support Novices' Example Use During Creative Open-Ended Programming.Wengran Wang, Audrey Le Meur, Mahesh Bobbadi, Bita Akram, Tiffany Barnes, Chris Martens, Thomas W. Price
2021EDMGaining Insight into Effective Teaching of AI Problem-Solving Through CSEDM: A Case Study (Work in Progress).Spencer Yoder, Cansu Tatar, Ifeoluwa Aderemi, Sankalp Boorugu, Shiyan Jiang, Bita Akram
2020EDMAutomated Assessment of Computer Science Competencies from Student Programs with Gaussian Process Regression.Bita Akram, Hamoon Azizsoltani, Wookhee Min, Eric N. Wiebe, Bradford W. Mott, Anam Navied, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, James C. Lester
2020EDMA Data-Driven Approach to Automatically Assessing Concept-Level CS Competencies Based on Student Programs.Bita Akram, Hamoon Azizolsoltani, Wookhee Min, Eric N. Wiebe, Anam Navied, Bradford W. Mott, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, James C. Lester
2020SIGCSEA Conceptual Assessment Framework for K-12 Computer Science Rubric Design.Bita Akram, Wookhee Min, Eric N. Wiebe, Anam Navied, Bradford W. Mott, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, James C. Lester
2019SIGCSEAssessing Middle School Students' Computational Thinking Through Programming Trajectory Analysis.Bita Akram, Wookhee Min, Eric N. Wiebe, Bradford W. Mott, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, James C. Lester
2018EDMImproving Stealth Assessment in Game-based Learning with LSTM-based Analytics.Bita Akram, Wookhee Min, Eric N. Wiebe, Bradford W. Mott, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, James C. Lester
2015ISVCCINAPACT-Splines: A Family of Infinitely Smooth, Accurate and Compactly Supported Splines.Bita Akram, Usman R. Alim, Faramarz F. Samavati