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Kai A. Hackney

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Sep 2026

Why Pay for an AI Tutor When You Can Design It? Student-Created AI Agents as Co-Designed Instructional Tools for a Large Software Design and Engineering Course

This paper presents insights into how undergraduate students in a large software design and engineering (SWE) course engage in the design of conversational intelligent agents (i.e., AI agents—AI stands for artificial intelligence) to support their learning process and build their technical skills. Students were asked t...

L. Zangari, Summer L. Abramson, Emilio Aponte-Archila et al. · CoED · 0 citations

Preprint Sep 2026

Design, development, and preliminary validity and reliability evidence of the Software Engineering Self-Efficacy Scale (SESES)

The purpose of this research is to design, develop, implement, and provide preliminary validity and reliability evidence of the Software Engineering Self-Efficacy Scale (SESES). Framed by a conceptual framework using guidance in software engineering curriculum and concepts along with the notion of self-efficacy, we gen...

Albert D. Ritzhaupt, Jhonathan Sora-Cardenas, Priya Ganapathy Prasad et al. · 0 citations