@article{anexplainableaiassistantforintroductoryp, title = {An Explainable AI Assistant for Introductory Programming Education: Improving Feedback Reliability with Instructor-AI Collaboration}, author = {Muntasir Hoq and Griffin Pitts and Bradford Mott and Seung Lee and Jessica Vandenberg and Shuyin Jiao and Narges Norouzi and James Lester and Bita Akram}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2606.12425}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12425}, }