Craig B. Zilles

According to our database, Craig B. Zilles authored at least 100 papers between 1995 and 2024.

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2024

Evaluating Large Language Model Code Generation as an Autograding Mechanism for "Explain in Plain English" Questions.

David H. Smith, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2024

Evaluating Mastery-oriented Grading in an Intensive CS1 Course.

Igor dos Santos Montagner, Rafael Corsi Ferrão, Andrew T. N. Kurauchi, Mariana Silva, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2024

Comparing the Security of Three Proctoring Regimens for Bring-Your-Own-Device Exams.

Rishi Gulati, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles, Mariana Silva

Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2024

Experiences With Computer-Based Testing (CBT).

Armando Fox, Dan Garcia, Cinda Heeren, Firas Moosvi, Mariana Silva, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2024

One Solution to Addressing Assessment Logistical Problems: An Experience Setting Up and Operating an In-person Testing Center.

Kelly Downey, Kris Miller, Mariana Silva, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2024

2023

Code Generation Based Grading: Evaluating an Auto-grading Mechanism for "Explain-in-Plain-English" Questions.

David H. Smith IV, Craig B. Zilles

CoRR, 2023

Spiffy Peer Instruction Questions.

Craig B. Zilles, David P. Bunde, Jaime Spacco, Cynthia Bailey Lee, Leo Porter, Cynthia Bagier Taylor

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 2, 2023

Computer-Based Testing Facilities as a Means for Enabling Better Assessment Pedagogy.

Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 2, 2023

Using Context-Free Grammars to Scaffold and Automate Feedback in Precise Mathematical Writing.

Jason Xia, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 1, 2023

Discovering, Autogenerating, and Evaluating Distractors for Python Parsons Problems in CS1.

David H. Smith, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 1, 2023

Investigating the Effects of Testing Frequency on Programming Performance and Students' Behavior.

David H. Smith IV, Chinedu Emeka, Max Fowler, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 1, 2023

Creating Algorithmically Generated Questions Using a Modern, Open-sourced, Online Platform: PrairieLearn.

Firas Moosvi, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Craig B. Zilles, Steven A. Wolfman, Fraida Fund, Laura K. Alford, Jonatan Schroeder

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 2, 2023

On Students' Usage of Tracing for Understanding Code.

Mohammed Hassan, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 1, 2023

Significant Trends in CS Educational Material: Current and Future.

Peter Brusilovsky, Barbara J. Ericson, Cay S. Horstmann, Christian Servin, Frank Vahid, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 2, 2023

Actually Achieving "A's for All" (As Time and Interest Allow).

Dan Garcia, Connor McMahon, Yuan Garcia, Craig B. Zilles, Matthew West, Mariana Silva, Solomon Russell, Edwin Ambrosio, Neal Terrell

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 2, 2023

A's for All (As Time and Interest Allow).

Dan Garcia, Armando Fox, Solomon Russell, Edwin Ambrosio, Neal Terrell, Mariana Silva, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles, Fuzail Shakir

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 1, 2023

Investigating the Role and Impact of Distractors on Parsons Problems in CS1 Assessments.

David H. Smith, Max Fowler, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1, 2023

Am I Wrong, or Is the Autograder Wrong? Effects of AI Grading Mistakes on Learning.

Tiffany Wenting Li, Silas Hsu, Max Fowler, Zhilin Zhang, Craig B. Zilles, Karrie Karahalios

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2023

Evaluating Beacons, the Role of Variables, Tracing, and Abstract Tracing for Teaching Novices to Understand Program Intent.

Mohammed Hassan, Kathryn Cunningham, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2023

"\"I Don't Gamble To Make My Livelihood\": Understanding the Incentives For.

Max Fowler, David H. Smith IV, Binglin Chen, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2023

Leveraging Second-Chance Testing to Improve Students' Outcomes.

Chinedu Emeka, Geoffrey L. Herman, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2023

Preparing Computer Science Education PhD Students: Our Process.

Kathryn Cunningham, Colleen M. Lewis, Geoffrey L. Herman, Craig B. Zilles, Abdussalam Alawini

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2023

Comparing the Impacts of Visually Grouped and Jumbled Distractors on Parsons Problems in CS1 Assessments.

David H. Smith IV, Seth Poulsen, Max Fowler, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Global Computing Education Vol 1, 2023

2022

Reevaluating the relationship between explaining, tracing, and writing skills in CS1 in a replication study.

Max Fowler, David H. Smith IV, Mohammed Hassan, Seth Poulsen, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles

Comput. Sci. Educ., 2022

On Students' Ability to Resolve their own Tracing Errors through Code Execution.

Mohammed Hassan, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the SIGCSE 2022: The 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2022

Are We Fair?: Quantifying Score Impacts of Computer Science Exams with Randomized Question Pools.

Max Fowler, David H. Smith IV, Chinedu Emeka, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the SIGCSE 2022: The 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2022

Peer-grading "Explain in Plain English": A Bayesian Calibration Method for Categorical Answers.

Binglin Chen, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the SIGCSE 2022: The 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2022

Software Support for "A's for All".

Dan Garcia, Connor McMahon, Yuan Garcia, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the L@S'22: Ninth ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, New York City, NY, USA, June 1, 2022

Achieving "A's for All (as Time and Interest Allow)".

Dan Garcia, Connor McMahon, Yuan Garcia, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the L@S'22: Ninth ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, New York City, NY, USA, June 1, 2022

2021

Pattern Census: A Characterization of Pattern Usage in Early Programming Courses.

Vighnesh Iyer, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the SIGCSE '21: The 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2021

Superficial Code-guise: Investigating the Impact of Surface Feature Changes on Students' Programming Question Scores.

Max Fowler, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the SIGCSE '21: The 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2021

Autograding.

Maxwell Fowler, Binglin Chen, Sushmita Azad, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the SIGCSE '21: The 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2021

Exploring 'reverse-tracing' Questions as a Means of Assessing the Tracing Skill on Computer-based CS 1 Exams.

Mohammed Hassan, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the ICER 2021: ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2021

How should we 'Explain in plain English'? Voices from the Community.

Max Fowler, Binglin Chen, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the ICER 2021: ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2021

Students' Perceptions and Behavior Related to Second-Chance Testing.

Chinedu Emeka, Timothy Bretl, Geoffrey L. Herman, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2021

How productive are homework and elective practice? Applying a post hoc modeling of student knowledge in a large, introductory computing course (Full Paper).

Max Fowler, Binglin Chen, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the Joint Proceedings of the Workshops at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining 2021 co-located with 14th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2021), 2021

Attitudes Surrounding an Imperfect AI Autograder.

Silas Hsu, Tiffany Wenting Li, Zhilin Zhang, Max Fowler, Craig B. Zilles, Karrie Karahalios

Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

2020

Measuring the Score Advantage on Asynchronous Exams in an Undergraduate CS Course.

Mariana Silva, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2020

A Validated Scoring Rubric for Explain-in-Plain-English Questions.

Binglin Chen, Sushmita Azad, Rajarshi Haldar, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2020

A Quantitative Analysis of When Students Choose to Grade Questions on Computerized Exams with Multiple Attempts.

Ashank Verma, Timothy Bretl, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the L@S'20: Seventh ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, 2020

Learning to Cheat: Quantifying Changes in Score Advantage of Unproctored Assessments Over Time.

Binglin Chen, Sushmita Azad, Maxwell Fowler, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the L@S'20: Seventh ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, 2020

Comparison of Grade Replacement and Weighted Averages for Second-Chance Exams.

Geoffrey L. Herman, Zhouxiang Cai, Timothy Bretl, Craig B. Zilles, Matthew West

Proceedings of the ICER 2020: International Computing Education Research Conference, 2020

Student Perceptions of Fairness and Security in a Versioned Programming Exam.

Chinedu Emeka, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the ICER 2020: International Computing Education Research Conference, 2020

Strategies for Deploying Unreliable AI Graders in High-Transparency High-Stakes Exams.

Sushmita Azad, Binglin Chen, Maxwell Fowler, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 21st International Conference, 2020

2019

uAssign: Scalable Interactive Activities for Teaching the Unix Terminal.

Jacob Bailey, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2019

Predicting the difficulty of automatic item generators on exams from their difficulty on homeworks.

Binglin Chen, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, 2019

Second-chance Testing Course Policies and Student Behavior.

Geoffrey L. Herman, Kavya Varghese, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2019

Every University Should Have a Computer-Based Testing Facility.

Craig B. Zilles, Matthew West, Geoffrey L. Herman, Timothy Bretl

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, 2019

Effect of Discrete and Continuous Parameter Variation on Difficulty in Automatic Item Generation.

Binglin Chen, Craig B. Zilles, Matthew West, Timothy Bretl

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 20th International Conference, 2019

2018

How much randomization is needed to deter collaborative cheating on asynchronous exams?

Binglin Chen, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the Fifth Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, 2018

Making Testing Less Trying: Lessons Learned from Operating a Computer-Based Testing Facility.

Craig B. Zilles, Matthew West, David Mussulman, Timothy Bretl

Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2018

Towards a Model-Free Estimate of the Limits to Student Modeling Accuracy.

Binglin Chen, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2018

2017

Investigating Student Plagiarism Patterns and Correlations to Grades.

Jonathan Pierce, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2017

Do Performance Trends Suggest Wide-spread Collaborative Cheating on Asynchronous Exams?

Binglin Chen, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, 2017

I Need Your Encouragement!: Requesting Supportive Comments on Social Media Reduces Test Anxiety.

Robert Deloatch, Brian P. Bailey, Alex Kirlik, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017

2016

Modeling Student Scheduling Preferences in a Computer-Based Testing Facility.

Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the Third ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, 2016

2015

Bungee jumps: accelerating indirect branches through HW/SW co-design.

Daniel S. McFarlin, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 48th International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 2015

Branch vanguard: decomposing branch functionality into prediction and resolution instructions.

Daniel S. McFarlin, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2015

2014

A psychometric evaluation of the digital logic concept inventory.

Geoffrey L. Herman, Craig B. Zilles, Michael C. Loui

Comput. Sci. Educ., 2014

2013

Discerning the dominant out-of-order performance advantage: is it speculation or dynamism?

Daniel S. McFarlin, Charles Tucker, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2013

2012

Flip-Flops in Students' Conceptions of State.

Geoffrey L. Herman, Craig B. Zilles, Michael C. Loui

IEEE Trans. Educ., 2012

Describing the What and Why of Students' Difficulties in Boolean Logic.

Geoffrey L. Herman, Michael C. Loui, Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk, Craig B. Zilles

ACM Trans. Comput. Educ., 2012

2011

Students' Misconceptions About Medium-Scale Integrated Circuits.

Geoffrey L. Herman, Michael C. Loui, Craig B. Zilles

IEEE Trans. Educ., 2011

How do students misunderstand number representations?

Geoffrey L. Herman, Craig B. Zilles, Michael C. Loui

Comput. Sci. Educ., 2011

2010

Setting the Scope of Concept Inventories for Introductory Computing Subjects.

Kenneth J. Goldman, Paul Gross, Cinda Heeren, Geoffrey L. Herman, Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk, Michael C. Loui, Craig B. Zilles

ACM Trans. Comput. Educ., 2010

Creating the digital logic concept inventory.

Geoffrey L. Herman, Michael C. Loui, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education, 2010

A real system evaluation of hardware atomicity for software speculation.

Naveen Neelakantam, David R. Ditzel, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2010

2009

Characterizing and optimizing the memory footprint of de novo short read DNA sequence assembly.

Jeffrey J. Cook, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, 2009

Blueshift: Designing processors for timing speculation from the ground up.

Brian Greskamp, Lu Wan, Ulya R. Karpuzcu, Jeffrey J. Cook, Josep Torrellas, Deming Chen, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-15 2009), 2009

2008

Hardware Atomicity: An Effective Abstraction for Reliable Software Speculation.

Naveen Neelakantam, Ravi Rajwar, Suresh Srinivas, Uma Srinivasan, Craig B. Zilles

IEEE Micro, 2008

Guest Editors' Introduction: Top Picks from the Computer Architecture Conferences of 2007.

Sarita V. Adve, David M. Brooks, Craig B. Zilles

IEEE Micro, 2008

Identifying important and difficult concepts in introductory computing courses using a delphi process: selective compression of unicode arrays in java.

Kenneth J. Goldman, Paul Gross, Cinda Heeren, Geoffrey L. Herman, Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk, Michael C. Loui, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2008

An Analysis of I/O And Syscalls In Critical Sections And Their Implications For Transactional Memory.

Lee Baugh, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, 2008

Using Hardware Memory Protection to Build a High-Performance, Strongly-Atomic Hybrid Transactional Memory.

Lee Baugh, Naveen Neelakantam, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 35th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2008), 2008

Proof by incomplete enumeration and other logical misconceptions.

Geoffrey L. Herman, Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk, Michael C. Loui, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the International Computing Education Research Workshop, 2008

Fundamental performance constraints in horizontal fusion of in-order cores.

Pierre Salverda, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-14 2008), 2008

A characterization of instruction-level error derating and its implications for error detection.

Jeffrey J. Cook, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 38th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, 2008

Accurate critical path prediction via random trace construction.

Pierre Salverda, Charles Tucker, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO 2008), 2008

Branch-on-random.

Edward Lee, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO 2008), 2008

2007

Transactional memory and the birthday paradox.

Craig B. Zilles, Ravi Rajwar

Proceedings of the SPAA 2007: Proceedings of the 19th Annual ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, 2007

Accordion arrays.

Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Memory Management, 2007

Hardware atomicity for reliable software speculation.

Naveen Neelakantam, Ravi Rajwar, Suresh Srinivas, Uma Srinivasan, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 34th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2007), 2007

Implications of False Conflict Rate Trends for Robust Software Transactional Memory.

Craig B. Zilles, Ravi Rajwar

Proceedings of the IEEE 10th International Symposium on Workload Characterization, 2007

2006

Decomposing the load-store queue by function for power reduction and scalability.

Lee Baugh, Craig B. Zilles

IBM J. Res. Dev., 2006

Probabilistic counter updates for predictor hysteresis and bias.

Nicholas Riley, Craig B. Zilles

IEEE Comput. Archit. Lett., 2006

Hardware tansactional memory support for lightweight dynamic language evolution.

Nicholas Riley, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the Companion to the 21th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, 2006

Probabilistic counter updates for predictor hysteresis and stratification.

Nicholas Riley, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, 2006

2005

SPIMbot: an engaging, problem-based approach to teaching assembly language programming.

Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2005

A Criticality Analysis of Clustering in Superscalar Processors.

Pierre Salverda, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 38th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-38 2005), 2005

Formally Defining and Verifying Master/Slave Speculative Parallelization.

Pierre Salverda, Grigore Rosu, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the FM 2005: Formal Methods, 2005

Reactive Techniques for Controlling Software Speculation.

Craig B. Zilles, Naveen Neelakantam

Proceedings of the 3nd IEEE / ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO 2005), 2005

2004

Targeted Path Profiling: Lower Overhead Path Profiling for Staged Dynamic Optimization Systems.

Rahul Joshi, Michael D. Bond, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE / ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO 2004), 2004

2002

Master/slave speculative parallelization.

Craig B. Zilles, Gurindar S. Sohi

Proceedings of the 35th Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 2002

2001

Benchmark health considered harmful.

Craig B. Zilles

SIGARCH Comput. Archit. News, 2001

Execution-based prediction using speculative slices.

Craig B. Zilles, Gurindar S. Sohi

Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2001

A Programmable Co-Processor for Profiling.

Craig B. Zilles, Gurindar S. Sohi

Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA'01), 2001

2000

Understanding the backward slices of performance degrading instructions.

Craig B. Zilles, Gurindar S. Sohi

Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2000), 2000

1999

The Use of Multithreading for Exception Handling.

Craig B. Zilles, Joel S. Emer, Gurindar S. Sohi

Proceedings of the 32nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 1999

1995

Haptic Rendering: Programming Touch Interaction with Virtual Objects.

John Kenneth Salisbury Jr., David L. Brock, Thomas Massie, Nick Swarup, Craig B. Zilles

Proceedings of the 1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, 1995

A constraint-based god-object method for haptic display.

Craig B. Zilles, John Kenneth Salisbury Jr.

Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1995