Self-Explanation Tutor for Active Study of CS1 Worked Examples

arXiv:2608.25180 · cs.CY, cs.AI, cs.HC · Submitted 2026-08-25 · Read on arXiv

cs.CY, cs.AI, cs.HC

Submitted: 2026-08-25

Updated: 2026-09-18

Terminology

• Semantic Similarity — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AUC — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM judge — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Scaffolding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Active Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Pragmatics — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Explaining Code with a Purpose: An Integrated Approach for Developing Code Comprehension and Prompting Skills
• Can LLMs Identify Gaps and Misconceptions in Students' Code Explanations?
• BERTScore: Evaluating Text Generation with BERT

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