CS-Guide: Leveraging LLMs and Student Reflections to Provide Frequent, Scalable Academic Monitoring Feedback to Computer Science Students

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Auteurs principaux: Chacko, Samuel Jacob, Wang, An-I Andy, Perez-Felkner, Lara, Haiduc, Sonia, Whalley, David, Liu, Xiuwen
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author Chacko, Samuel Jacob
Wang, An-I Andy
Perez-Felkner, Lara
Haiduc, Sonia
Whalley, David
Liu, Xiuwen
author_facet Chacko, Samuel Jacob
Wang, An-I Andy
Perez-Felkner, Lara
Haiduc, Sonia
Whalley, David
Liu, Xiuwen
contents Computer Science (CS) departments often serve large student populations, making timely academic monitoring and personalized feedback difficult. While the recommended counselor-to-student ratio is 250:1, it often exceeds 350:1 in practice, leading to delays in support and interventions. We present CS-Guide, which leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to deliver scalable, frequent academic feedback. Weekly, students interact with CS-Guide through self-reported grades and reflective journal entries, from which CS-Guide extracts quantitative and qualitative features and triggers tailored interventions (e.g., academic support, health and wellness referrals). Thus, CS-Guide uniquely integrates learning analytics, LLMs, and actionable interventions using both structured and unstructured student-generated data. We evaluated CS-Guide on a four-year, ~20K-entry longitudinal dataset, and it achieved up to a 97% F1 score in recommending interventions for first-year students. This shows that CS-Guide can enhance advising systems with scalable, consistent, timely, and domain-specific feedback.
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spellingShingle CS-Guide: Leveraging LLMs and Student Reflections to Provide Frequent, Scalable Academic Monitoring Feedback to Computer Science Students
Chacko, Samuel Jacob
Wang, An-I Andy
Perez-Felkner, Lara
Haiduc, Sonia
Whalley, David
Liu, Xiuwen
Computers and Society
I.2.1; I.2.7; J.1; K.3.1; K.3.2
Computer Science (CS) departments often serve large student populations, making timely academic monitoring and personalized feedback difficult. While the recommended counselor-to-student ratio is 250:1, it often exceeds 350:1 in practice, leading to delays in support and interventions. We present CS-Guide, which leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to deliver scalable, frequent academic feedback. Weekly, students interact with CS-Guide through self-reported grades and reflective journal entries, from which CS-Guide extracts quantitative and qualitative features and triggers tailored interventions (e.g., academic support, health and wellness referrals). Thus, CS-Guide uniquely integrates learning analytics, LLMs, and actionable interventions using both structured and unstructured student-generated data. We evaluated CS-Guide on a four-year, ~20K-entry longitudinal dataset, and it achieved up to a 97% F1 score in recommending interventions for first-year students. This shows that CS-Guide can enhance advising systems with scalable, consistent, timely, and domain-specific feedback.
title CS-Guide: Leveraging LLMs and Student Reflections to Provide Frequent, Scalable Academic Monitoring Feedback to Computer Science Students
topic Computers and Society
I.2.1; I.2.7; J.1; K.3.1; K.3.2
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19866