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Dagstuhl Seminar Poster: Critiquing CS Assessment from a CS for All Lens
Today’s the last day of the Dagstuhl Seminar I’ve been attending on Assessing Learning In Introductory Computer Science (see seminar description here). We all presented posters about the theme, and I...
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What can undergraduate courses do to improve diversity in computing?
Dan is one of the best computer science teachers I know, and I strongly agree with the goals he describes below. I’m not sure how much intro courses can do to recruit more diverse students. At...
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Review the Draft of the 2016 CSTA K-12 CS Standards
It’s a little weird that the CSTA Standards are out for review now, when the Framework is just finishing the first round of public comment (see my review here). The CSTA Standards have a different...
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Defining Computing Education Research at University of South Florida
I just recently visited the computing education research web pages at the University of South Florida. It’s an interesting contrast with the post about how those of us at Georgia Tech do computing...
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SIGCSE 2016 Preview: Parsons Problems and Subgoal Labeling, and Improving...
Our research group has two papers at this year’s SIGCSE Technical Symposium. Subgoals help students solve Parsons Problems by Briana Morrison, Lauren Margulieux, Barbara Ericson, and Mark Guzdial....
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FAQ on how to get started in Computing Education Research: A Dagstuhl Seminar...
At the recent Dagstuhl seminar on CS Ed, Andy Ko started an FAQ — what someone wanting to get started in computing education research needs to know. He’s released it now (with lots of contributors and...
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SIGCSE 2016 Preview: Miranda Parker replicated the FCS1
I’ve been waiting a long time to write this post, though I do so even now with some trepidation. In 2010, Allison Elliott Tew completed her dissertation on building FCS1, the first language-independent...
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How we actually get to #CSforAll in the US: Jan Cuny wins SIGCSE Outstanding...
The President’s new “CS for All” initiative can only be influenced by the federal government. In the United States, individual states make all school education decisions. We just had a meeting of our...
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Friction Between Programming Professionals and Beginners
It’s not obvious that professional programmers are the best people to answer questions for beginners, yet that’s often recommended as a strategy for providing support to CS students when there are too...
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Notional Machines and Misconceptions in CS: Developing a Research Agenda at...
I facilitated a breakout group at the Dagstuhl Seminar on Assessment in Introductory Computer Science. We started talking about what students know and should know, and several of us started using...
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