Conversational Agents for Teaching Computing-Related Conversational Skills

Existing research has shown that conversational programmers have distinct learning needs from traditional CS major students. As the curriculum objectives of most introductory CS courses are aligned with the learning needs of traditional CS major students, conversational programmers often experience a sense of failure and low self-efficacy in CS courses. In my research, I have extended the current understanding of undergraduate conversational programmers at scale. I further intend to design learning tools for conversational programmers, ultimately contributing to expanding pathways to computing education.