CS Education Research
COMP 7999/8999 • Fall 2017
Dr. Scott Fleming, Instructor
Instructions
Schedule
| Date | Lecture | Due |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to the Course! (notes) | - | |
| Publication Venues for CSEd Research (notes) | - | |
| Topics and Contributions of ICER 2017 Research (notes) | - | |
| (Continued) | - | |
| (Continued) | - | |
| (Continued) | - | |
| Presentation Assignments (see eCourseware) | - | |
| Which Information to Present (notes) | - | |
| Effective Presentation Style (notes) | - | |
| How to Rebut (notes) | - | |
| Presentation 1: “K-8 Learning Trajectories Derived from Research Literature: Sequence, Repetition, Conditionals” (Rich et al., ICER ‘17); “The Role of Self-Regulation in Programming Problem Solving Process and Success” (Loksa & Ko, ICER ‘16) | Slides Presented Due by End of Class | |
| Presentation 1 (cont’d): “Comprehension First: Evaluating a Novel Pedagogy and Tutoring System for Program Tracing in CS1” (Nelson et al., ICER ‘17); “RoboBUG: A Serious Game for Learning Debugging Techniques” (Miljanovic & Bradbury, ICER ‘17) | Slides Presented Due by End of Class | |
| Developing a Research Project | - | |
| VL/HCC Week—no class | - | |
| Fall Break—no class | - | |
| Discussion of Presentation 1 Papers and Research Interests | - | |
| Introduction to the Essay Assignment | - | |
| How to Structure and Write the Detailed Outline (notes) | - | |
| Round Table Discussion of Project Proposal Ideas | - | |
| Round Table Discussion of Project Proposal Ideas (cont’d) | - | |
| Presentation 2: “Constructing the ScratchJr programming language in the early childhood classroom” (Portelance et al., 2016); “Student experiences using GitHub in software engineering courses: a case study” (Feliciano et al., ICSE ‘16) | Slides Presented Due by End of Class | |
| Presentation 2 (cont’d): “Integrating Affect Sensors in an Intelligent Tutoring System” (D’Mello et al., 2005); “Extracting Domain Models from Natural-Language Requirements: Approach and Industrial” (Arora et al., MODELS ‘16) | Slides Presented Due by End of Class | |
| Writing Your Essay in LaTeX (video) | - | |
| Peer Feedback of Essay Outlines (notes) | Essay Outline Draft 1 Due by 10am | |
| Peer Feedback of Essay Outlines | Essay Outline Draft 2 Due by 10am | |
| Thanksgiving Holidays—no class | - | |
| Presentation 3: “Recommender System for Predicting Student Performance” (Thai-Nghe et al., Procedia Comput. Sci. ‘10) | Slides Presented Due by End of Class | |
| Presentation 3 (cont’d): “Visualizing call graphs” (LaToza & Myers, VL/HCC ‘11); “Robotics in the early childhood classroom: Learning outcomes from an 8-week robotics curriculum in pre-kindergarten through second grade” (Sullivan & Bers, Int. J. Technol. Des. Educ. ‘10) | Slides Presented Due by End of Class | |
| Peer Feedback of Essay Draft (notes) | Essay Draft 1 Due by 10am | |
| Study Day—no class | - | |
| Final Exam - Video Presentation: Technology for Teaching the Majority about Computer Science by Mark Guzdial (video) | Essay Final Draft Due by End of Day |