Below is a list of all conference activities. For more details on the Doctoral Consortium and workshops, please refer to the other menu items under the “Attendees” menu. A more detailed schedule of activities will be available after the paper review and acceptance process has concluded.
| Wednesday, 16 August | |||
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| 8:00-17:00 | Workshop: Leveraging Programming and Social Analytics to Improve Computing Education | Chris Hundhausen, organizer. Location: Holiday Inn Express |
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| 13:00-17:00 | Social theory for Computer Science Education | Elizabeth Patitsas, organizer. Location: Cherry Parkes (CP) 105 |
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| Thursday 17, August | |||
| 8:00-17:00 | Workshop: Leveraging Programming and Social Analytics to Improve Computing Education | Chris Hundhausen, organizer. Location: Holiday Inn Express |
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| 8:00-17:00 | Doctoral Consortium | Ben Shapiro, Jan Vahrenhold, organizers. Location: Cherry Parkes (CP) 325 |
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| 17:00-19:00 | Conference registration. William Philip Hall |
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| Friday, 18 August (am) William Philip Hall | |||
| 8:00-8:45 | Conference registration | ||
| 8:45-9:15 | Opening | Conference Welcome and Announcements | |
| 9:15-10:30 | Keynote Address | Minding One’s Business: On the How, When, and Where of Cognition | Wolff-Michael Roth (University of Victoria) |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning tea Posters during Morning tea |
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| 11:00-12:30 | Novice Programmers Session Chair: Brian Dorn (University of Nebraska Omaha) |
Comprehension First: Evaluating a Novel Pedagogy and Tutoring System for Program Tracing in CS1 | Greg L. Nelson (University of Washington); Benjamin Xie (University of Washington); Andrew J. Ko (University of Washington) |
| Sometimes, Rainfall Accumulates: Talk-Alouds with Novice Functional Programmers | Kathi Fisler (WPI); Francisco Enrique Vicente Castro (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) | ||
| Using Learners’ Self-Explanations of Subgoals to Guide Initial Problem Solving in App Inventor | Lauren Margulieux (Georgia State University); Richard Catrambone (Georgia Institute of Technology) | ||
| 12:30-13:45 | Lunch | ||
| Friday, 18 August (pm) | |||
| 13:45-15:15 | Student Perceptions, Conceptions, Reactions. Session Chair: Kate Sanders (Rhode Island College |
Students’ Emotional Reactions to Programming Projects in Introduction to Programming: Measurement Approach and Influence on Learning Outcomes | Alex Lishinski (Michigan State University); Aman Yadav (Michigan State University); Richard Enbody (Michigan State University) |
| The ‘art’ of programming: exploring student conceptions of programming through the use of drawing methodology | Adon Moskal (Otago Polytechnic); Joy Gasson (Otago Polytechnic); Dale Parsons (Otago Polytechnic) | ||
| Social Perceptions in Computer Science and Implications for Diverse Students | Jennifer Wang (Google); Juliet Tiffany-Morales (Google); Sepehr Hejazi Moghadam (Google) | ||
| 15:15-15:45 | Lightning Talks | Chair: Katrina Falkner, Anna Eckerdal | |
| 15:45-16:15 | Afternoon tea Posters during Afternoon tea |
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| 16:15-17:45 | When Things Go Wrong Session Chair: Judy Sheard (Monash University) |
Taking advantage of scale by analyzing frequent constructed-response, code tracing wrong answers | Kristin Stephens-Martinez (UC Berkeley); An Ju (UC Berkeley); Krishna Parashar (UC Berkeley); Regina Ongowarsito (University of California, Berkeley); Nikunj Jain (UC Berkeley); Sreesha Venkat (UC Berkeley); Armando Fox (UC Berkeley) |
| Investigating Static Analysis Errors in Student Java Programs | Stephen H. Edwards (Virginia Tech); Nischel Kandru (Virginia Tech); Mukund B. M. Rajagopal (Virginia Tech) | ||
| On Novices’ Interaction with Compiler Error Messages: A Human Factors Approach | James Prather (Abilene Christian University); Raymond Pettit (Abilene Christian University); Kayla Holcomb McMurry (Abilene Christian University); Alani Peters (Abilene Christian University); John Homer (Abilene Christian University); Nevan Simone (Abilene Christian University); Maxine Cohen (Nova Southeastern University) | ||
| Friday, 18 August (evening) | |||
| Dinner on one’s own | |||
| Saturday, 19 August (am) William Philip Hall | |||
| 9:00-10:30 | Tool-mediated Learning Session Chair: Chris Hundhausen (Washington State University) |
Suggesting Theorem Provers as a Learning Tool in Theory of Computation | Christiane Frede (Universität Hamburg); Maria Knobelsdorf (Universität Hamburg) |
| RoboBUG: A Serious Game for Learning Debugging | Michael Miljanovic (University of Ontario Institute of Technology); Jeremy Bradbury (University of Ontario Institute of Technology) | ||
| Students and Teachers use an online AP CS Principles ebook differently: Teacher behavior consistent with expert learners | Miranda Parker (Georgia Institute of Technology); Kantwon Rogers (Georgia Institute of Technology); Barbara Ericson (Georgia Institute of Technology); Mark Guzdial (Georgia Institute of Technology) | ||
| 10:30-11:15 | Morning tea & DC posters (grp 1) | ||
| 11:15-12:45 | Social Interaction and Support Session Chair: Anna Eckerdal (Uppsala University) |
Describing Elementary Students’ Interactions in Puzzle-based Environments using the Collaborative Computing Observation Instrument (C-COI) | Maya Israel (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign); Quentin Wherfel (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign); Saadeddine Shehab (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign); Oliver Melvin (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) |
| Understanding Student Collaboration in Interdisciplinary Computing Activities | Elise Deitrick (Tufts University); Michelle Wilkerson (University of California – Berkeley); Eric Simoneau (Boston Public Schools) | ||
| Factors Influencing Students’ Help-Seeking Behavior while Programming with Human and Computer Tutors | Thomas Price (North Carolina State University); Zhongxiu Liu (North Carolina State University); Veronica Catete (North Carolina State University); Tiffany Barnes (North Carolina State University) | ||
| 12:45-14:00 | Lunch | ||
| Saturday, 19 August (pm) | |||
| 14:00-15:30 | Teacher Conceptions and Experiences Session Chair: Andrew Ko (University of Washington) |
Conceptions and Misconceptions about Computational Thinking among Italian Primary School Teachers | Isabella Corradini (Themis Research Centre); Michael Lodi (University of Bologna); Enrico Nardelli (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”) |
| Folk pedagogy: Nobody doesn’t like Active Learning | Jonas Boustedt (Högskolan i Gävle); Anna Eckerdal (Uppsala University); Robert McCartney (University of Connecticut); Kate Sanders (Rhode Island College); Carol Zander (University of Washington Bothell) | ||
| Understanding the “Teacher Experience” in Primary and Secondary CS Professional Development | Tracie Reding (University of Nebraska Omaha); Brian Dorn (University of Nebraska Omaha) | ||
| 15:30-16:15 | Afternoon tea & DC posters (grp 2) | ||
| 16:15-17:45 | External representations for understanding & Learning Trajectories Session Chair: Robert McCartney (University of Connecticut) |
Using Tracing and Sketching to Solve Programming Problems: Replicating and Extending an Analysis of What Students Draw | Kathryn Cunningham (Georgia Institute of Technology); Sarah Blanchard (Georgia Institute of Technology); Barbara Ericson (Georgia Institute of Technology); Mark Guzdial (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
| The affordances and constraints of diagrams on students’ reasoning about state machines | Geoffrey Herman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Dong San Choi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | ||
| K-8 Learning Trajectories Derived from Research Literature: Sequence, Repetition, Conditionals | Kathryn Rich (UChicago STEM Education); Carla Strickland (UChicago STEM Education); Andrew Binkowski (University of Chicago); Cheryl Moran (UChicago STEM Education); Diana Franklin (UChicago STEM Education) | ||
| 19:00-22:00 | Conference Dinner | Tacoma Art Museum | |
| Sunday, 20 August (am) William Philip Hall | |||
| 9:00-10:00 | Students’ Use of Time in Programming Session Chair: Andrew Petersen (University of Toronto Mississauga) |
Quantifying Incremental Development Practices and Their Relationship to Procrastination | Ayaan M. Kazerouni (Virginia Tech); Stephen H. Edwards (Virginia Tech); Clifford A. Shaffer (Virginia Tech) |
| Comparison of Time Metrics in Programming | Juho Leinonen (University of Helsinki); Leo Leppänen (University of Helsinki); Petri Ihantola (Tampere University of Technology); Arto Hellas (University of Helsinki) | ||
| 10:00-10:30 | Morning tea | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Validating Assessments & Dual Modality Teaching Session Chair: Lauri Malmi (Aalto University) |
Principled Assessment of Student Learning in High School Computer Science | Eric Snow (SRI International); Marie Bienkowski (SRI International); Daisy Rutstein (SRI International); Yuning Xu (SRI International) |
| An Instrument to Assess Self-Efficacy in Introductory Algorithms Courses | Holger Danielsiek (WWU Münster); Laura Toma (Bowdoin College); Jan Vahrenhold (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) | ||
| Dual Modality Code Explanations for Novices: Unexpected Results | Briana Morrison (University of Nebraska at Omaha) | ||
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch | ||
| 13:00-14:30 | Outside the Conventional Classroom Session Chair: Ari Korhonen (Aalto University) |
Computing Mentorship in a Software Boomtown: Relationships to Adolescent Interest and Beliefs | Andrew Ko (University of Washington); Katie Davis (University of Washington) |
| Barriers Faced by Coding Bootcamp Students | Kyle Thayer (University of Washington); Andrew J. Ko (University of Washington) | ||
| Hack.edu: Examining How College Hackathons Are Perceived By Student Attendees and Non-Attendees | Jeremy Warner (UC Berkeley); Philip Guo (UC San Diego) | ||
| 14:30-15:30 | Closing Session | Paper awards, attendee feedback, announcements | |
| 16:00-18:00 | Work in Progress workshop | Colleen Lewis and Sally Fincher, organizers Location: William Philip Hall |
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| Monday, August 21 | |||
| 9.00-14.00 | Work in Progress workshop | Colleen Lewis and Sally Fincher, organizers Location: Cherry Parkes (CP) 106 |
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| 9:00-17:00 | Workshop – Research on Learning about Machine Learning | Ben Shapiro, Peter Norvig, Rebecca Fiebrink, organizers Location: Cherry Parkes (CP) 105 |
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