VizGroup: An AI-Assisted Event-Driven System for Real-Time Collaborative Programming Learning Analytics

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Main Authors: Tang, Xiaohang, Wong, Sam, Pu, Kevin, Chen, Xi, Yang, Yalong, Chen, Yan
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Published: 2024
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author Tang, Xiaohang
Wong, Sam
Pu, Kevin
Chen, Xi
Yang, Yalong
Chen, Yan
author_facet Tang, Xiaohang
Wong, Sam
Pu, Kevin
Chen, Xi
Yang, Yalong
Chen, Yan
contents Programming instructors often conduct collaborative learning activities, like Peer Instruction, to foster a deeper understanding in students and enhance their engagement with learning. These activities, however, may not always yield productive outcomes due to the diversity of student mental models and their ineffective collaboration. In this work, we introduce VizGroup, an AI-assisted system that enables programming instructors to easily oversee students' real-time collaborative learning behaviors during large programming courses. VizGroup leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to recommend event specifications for instructors so that they can simultaneously track and receive alerts about key correlation patterns between various collaboration metrics and ongoing coding tasks. We evaluated VizGroup with 12 instructors in a comparison study using a dataset collected from a Peer Instruction activity that was conducted in a large programming lecture. The results showed that VizGroup helped instructors effectively overview, narrow down, and track nuances throughout students' behaviors.
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spellingShingle VizGroup: An AI-Assisted Event-Driven System for Real-Time Collaborative Programming Learning Analytics
Tang, Xiaohang
Wong, Sam
Pu, Kevin
Chen, Xi
Yang, Yalong
Chen, Yan
Human-Computer Interaction
Programming instructors often conduct collaborative learning activities, like Peer Instruction, to foster a deeper understanding in students and enhance their engagement with learning. These activities, however, may not always yield productive outcomes due to the diversity of student mental models and their ineffective collaboration. In this work, we introduce VizGroup, an AI-assisted system that enables programming instructors to easily oversee students' real-time collaborative learning behaviors during large programming courses. VizGroup leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to recommend event specifications for instructors so that they can simultaneously track and receive alerts about key correlation patterns between various collaboration metrics and ongoing coding tasks. We evaluated VizGroup with 12 instructors in a comparison study using a dataset collected from a Peer Instruction activity that was conducted in a large programming lecture. The results showed that VizGroup helped instructors effectively overview, narrow down, and track nuances throughout students' behaviors.
title VizGroup: An AI-Assisted Event-Driven System for Real-Time Collaborative Programming Learning Analytics
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08743