A Decade of Demographics in Computing Education Research: A Critical Review of Trends in Collection, Reporting, and Use

A Oleson, B Xie, J Salac, J Everson… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Computing education research (CER) has used demographic data to understand learners'
identities, backgrounds, and contexts for efforts such as culturally-responsive computing …

Review of measurements used in computing education research and suggestions for increasing standardization

L Margulieux, TA Ketenci, A Decker - Computer Science Education, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Background and context: The variables that researchers measure and how they measure
them are central in any area of research, including computing education. Which research …

Interest development theory in computing education: A framework and toolkit for researchers and designers

JE Michaelis, D Weintrop - ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Computing is rapidly becoming a critical literacy for succeeding in an increasingly
technological world. While the proliferation of programs dedicated to broadening …

A middle-school camp emphasizing data science and computing for social good

C Bryant, Y Chen, Z Chen, J Gilmour… - Proceedings of the 50th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The underrepresentation within computer science of women, domestic students of color, and
students with lower socioeconomic-status remains a national issue. Recent studies …

A topical review of evaluation instruments for computing education

A Decker, MM McGill - Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
As computing education research continues to grow and mature as a field, it becomes more
important to focus on the quality and rigor of our research studies. One important aspect of …

Folk pedagogy: Nobody doesn't like active learning

K Sanders, J Boustedt, A Eckerdal… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
In a survey of the computing education community, many respondents suggested" active
learning" as a teaching approach that would increase the likelihood of student success. In …

What do we know about computing education for K-12 in non-formal settings? A systematic literature review of recent research

T Gardner, HC Leonard, J Waite… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Background and context. Non-formal learning for K-12 computing education enables young
people to learn about computing outside the formal curriculum. Many studies have reported …

Pre-college computing outreach research: Towards improving the practice

A Decker, MM McGill - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Europe, Australia, and North America face two similar challenges with respect to computing--
there have not been enough students matriculating to keep up with demand and the lack of …

Improving research and experience reports of pre-college computing activities: A gap analysis

MM McGill, A Decker, Z Abbott - Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
This paper provides a detailed examination of pre-college computing activities as reported
in three Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) venues (2012-2016). Ninety-two …

A gap analysis of statistical data reporting in K-12 computing education research: recommendations for improvement

MM McGill, A Decker - Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The quality of reporting of experimental results in computing education literature has been
previously shown to be less than rigorous. In this study, we first examined research …