Publications

Using Benchmarking Infrastructure to Evaluate LLM Performance on CS Concept Inventories: Challenges, Opportunities, and Critiques
Murtaza Ali, Prerna Rao, Yifan Mai, Benjamin Xie
ICER 2024. 2024

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From Consumers to Critical Users: Prompty, an AI Literacy Tool For High School Students
Deepak Varuvel Dennison, Raycelle C. C. Garcia, Parth Sarin, Jacob Wolf, Christine Bywater, Benjamin Xie, Victor R. Lee
EAAI 2024. 2024

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Co-Designing AI Education Curriculum with Cross-Disciplinary High School Teachers
Benjamin Xie, Parth Sarin, Jacob Wolf, Raycelle C. C. Garcia, Victoria Delaney, Isabel Sieh, Anika Fuloria, Deepak Varuvel Dennison, Christine Bywater, Victor R. Lee
EAAI 2024. 2024

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Teaching Ethics in Computing: A Systematic Literature Review of ACM Computer Science Education Publications
Noelle Brown, Benjamin Xie, Ella Sarder, Casey Fiesler, Eliane S. Wiese
TOCE 2024. 2024

Developing Novice Programmers' Self-Regulation Skills with Code Replays
Benjamin Xie, Jared Ordona Lim, Paul K.D. Pham, Min Li, Amy J. Ko
ICER 2023. 2023

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CRAFT-Work: An Integrative Co-Design Approach for Designing High School AI Literacy Resources
Victor R. Lee, Parth Sarin, Jacob Wolf, Benjamin Xie
CHI 2023 AI Literacy Workshop. 2023

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Centering Environmental Justice in Computing Education
Benjamin Xie, Greg L Nelson, Francisco Enrique Vicente Castro, Nicholas Lytle, Briana Bettin
SIGCSE. 2023

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Theories of Programming (Dagstuhl Seminar 22231)
Thomas D. LaToza, Amy J. Ko, David C. Shepherd, Dag Sjøberg, Benjamin Xie
Dagstuhl. 2023

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A Decade of Demographics in Computing Education Research: A Critical Review of Trends in Collection, Reporting, and Use
Alannah Oleson, Benjamin Xie, Jean Salac, Jayne Everson, F. Megumi Kivuva, Amy J Ko
ICER 2022. 2022

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Surfacing Equity Issues in Large Computing Courses with Peer-Ranked, Demographically-Labeled Student Feedback
Benjamin Xie, Alannah Oleson, Jayne Everson, Amy J Ko
PACMHCI. 2022

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Stakeholders' Interpretations of Data for Equitable Computing Education
Benjamin Xie
2021

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Interpretations and Uses of Data for Equity in Computing Education
Benjamin Xie
Extended Abstracts of the 2021 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research. 2021

Domain Experts' Interpretations of Assessment Bias in a Scaled, Online Computer Science Curriculum
Benjamin Xie, Matt J. Davidson, Baker Franke, Emily McLeod, Min Li, Amy J Ko
L@S. 2021

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How data can support equity in computing education
Benjamin Xie
XRDS. 2020

It Is Time for More Critical CS Education
Amy J. Ko, Alannah Oleson, Mara Kirdani-Ryan, Yim Register, Benjamin Xie, Mina Tari, Matthew Davidson, Stefania Druga, Dastyni Loksa
CACM. 2020

Learning and education in HCI: a reflection on the SIG at CHI 2019
Viktoria Pammer-Schindler, Erik Harpstead, Benjamin Xie, Betsy DiSalvo, Ahmed Kharrufa, Petr Slovak, Amy Ogan, Joseph Jay Williams, Michael Lee
Interactions. 2020

The Effect of Informing Agency in Self-Directed Online Learning Environments
Benjamin Xie, Greg L Nelson, Harshitha Akkaraju, William Kwok, Amy J Ko
Proceedings of the Seventh (2020) ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale. 2020

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Investigating Novices' In Situ Reflections on Their Programming Process
Dastyni Loksa, Benjamin Xie, Harrison Kwik, Amy J Ko
Proceedings of the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Research Track. 2020

Towards a validated formative assessment for language-specific program tracing skills
Greg L Nelson, Benjamin Xie, Anne Drew Hu, Amy J Ko
Koli Calling. 2019

Learning, Education, and HCI
Benjamin Xie, Erik Harpstead, Betsy DiSalvo, Petr Slovak, Ahmed Kharrufa, Michael J Lee, Viktoria Pammer-Schindler, Amy Ogan, Joseph Jay Williams
Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2019

An Item Response Theory Evaluation of a Language-Independent CS1 Knowledge Assessment
Benjamin Xie, Matthew J Davidson, Min Li, Amy J Ko
Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. 2019

A theory of instruction for introductory programming skills
Benjamin Xie, Dastyni Loksa, Greg L Nelson, Matthew J Davidson, Dongsheng Dong, Harrison Kwik, Alex Hui Tan, Leanne Hwa, Min Li, Amy J Ko
Computer Science Education. 2019

Experiences of Computer Science Transfer Students
Harrison Kwik, Benjamin Xie, Amy J Ko
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research. 2018

An Explicit Strategy to Scaffold Novice Program Tracing
Benjamin Xie, Greg L Nelson, Amy J Ko
2018 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. 2018

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Comprehension First: Evaluating a Novel Pedagogy and Tutoring System for Program Tracing in CS1
Greg L Nelson, Benjamin Xie, Amy J Ko
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research. 2017

Skill progression in MIT app inventor
Benjamin Xie, Hal Abelson
2016 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC). 2016

Progression of computational thinking skills demonstrated by App Inventor users
Benjamin Xie
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2016

Measuring the Usability and Capability of App Inventor to Create Mobile Applications
Benjamin Xie, Isra Shabir, Hal Abelson
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Programming for Mobile and Touch. 2015