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  1. When LLMs Hallucinate: Examining the Effects of Erroneous Feedback in Math Tutoring Systems

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zach Pardos

  2. Automating Academic Transcript Evaluation: A Comparative Study of OCR Techniques for Course and Grade Evaluation

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zach Pardos

  3. Adaptive Tutoring Goes to Sweden: Machine Translation and Alignment of English OERs to a Swedish Calculus Course

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zach Pardos

  4. PromptHive: Demonstrating Collaborative, Human-Centered OER Creation with LLMs

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zach Pardos

  5. Gaining Insights into Group-Level Course Difficulty via Differential Course Functioning

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Conrad Borchers, Zach Pardos, Professor Laurenz Wiskott

  6. ChatGPT-generated help produces learning gains equivalent to human tutor-authored help on mathematics skills

    Article • PLOS One, May 2024, PLOS

    Zach Pardos

  7. Comparing Authoring Experiences with Spreadsheet Interfaces vs GUIs

    Article • March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zach Pardos

  8. Extracting Course Similarity Signal using Subword Embeddings

    Article • March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zach Pardos

  9. An Empirical Evaluation of Educational Data Mining Techniques in a Dynamic VR Application

    Article • December 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Sara Khorasani, Zach Pardos

  10. Convincing the Expert: Reducing Algorithm Aversion in Administrative Higher Education Decision-making

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zach Pardos

  11. Introducing an Open-source Adaptive Tutoring System to Accelerate Learning Sciences Experimentation

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zach Pardos

  12. OATutor: An Open-source Adaptive Tutoring System and Curated Content Library for Learning Sciences Research

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zach Pardos

  13. Insights into undergraduate pathways using course load analytics

    Article • March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Conrad Borchers, Zach Pardos

  14. Towards Equity and Algorithmic Fairness in Student Grade Prediction

    Article • July 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zach Pardos

  15. Orienting Students to Course Recommendations Using Three Types of Explanation

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zach Pardos

  16. Learning Skill Equivalencies Across Platform Taxonomies

    Article • April 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cheng Ren, Zach Pardos

  17. Which one’s more work? Predicting effective credit hours between courses

    Article • April 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zach Pardos

  18. A university map of course knowledge

    Article • PLOS One, September 2020, PLOS

    Zach Pardos

  19. Designing for serendipity in a university course recommendation system

    Article • March 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zach Pardos

  20. Data-Assistive Course-to-Course Articulation Using Machine Translation

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zach Pardos

  21. AutoQuiz

    Article • February 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zach Pardos

  22. Improving efficacy attribution in a self-directed learning environment using prior knowledge individualization

    Article • January 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zach Pardos

  23. Toward the Evaluation of Educational Videos using Bayesian Knowledge Tracing and Big Data

    Article • March 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zach Pardos

  24. Item Ordering Effects with Qualitative Explanations using Online Adaptive Tutoring Data

    Article • March 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zach Pardos

  25. moocRP

    Article • March 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zach Pardos