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Preparing K-8 Teachers to Teach and Infuse Computer Science Across All Subjects

Papers When: Sat 1 Mar 2025 14:41 - 15:00 People: Angela Williams-Nash, Sumi Hagiwara, Katherine G. Herbert, Thomas Marlowe, Rebecca Goldstein, Vaibhav Anu

… on digital information will affect the lives and careers of almost all current … funded Computer Science for All grant program aimed at providing professional … for all K-12 students. It explores the creation of teacher resources aligned …

Innovative Approaches to CS Education Research that Enable All Students’ Success

Panels When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 15:45 - 17:00 People: Monica McGill, Joseph Carroll-Miranda, Joshua Childs, Stefanie Marshall, Tamara Pearson

… appropriate to CS education research that can be leveraged to ensure that all

Conducting High-quality Education Research in Computing Designed to Support CS for All

Affiliated Events When: Wed 26 Feb 2025 13:00 - 17:00 People: Monica McGill, Sarah Heckman, Jennifer Rosato, Julie Smith, Isabella White

… This 4-hour affiliated event will focus on sharing the recently created set of guidelines for conducting high-quality education research in computing that addresses the needs of students from all walks of life. This event is directed …

All Scripture is Useful for Teaching: CS Education through a Christian Worldview

Birds of a Feather When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 17:30 - 18:20 People: Elijah Rivera, Russ Tuck

… …

Satisfactory for all: supporting mastery learning with human-in-the-loop assessments in a discrete math course

Papers When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 11:22 - 11:41 People: Shao-Heng Ko, Alex Chao, Violet Pang

… This experience report documents an attempt at embracing the ``A’s for all … to automate all assessments and directly offer all students unlimited attempts toward …, and Unassessable (ESNU) discrete grading model, we required all students to get a Satisfactory …

Flourishing For All: Embedding Ethics in Undergraduate Computer Science Education Through Intelligent Digital Simulations

Lightning Talks When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 16:35 - 16:45 People: Suzana Neves, Preeti Raman

… , understanding that students arrive to higher education from all walks of life … up in the world as computer scientists will contribute to flourishing for all

Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) Meeting

Affiliated Events When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 18:00 - 19:00 People: Debzani Deb, Gloria Washington

… This meeting will welcome all faculty from Minority Serving Institutions and those with an interest in improving the SIGCSE experience for participants from … and to foster growth in future participation. May be of interest to all

Towards a Computer Science Curriculum “Microkernel”

Birds of a Feather When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 12:45 - 13:35 People: Grant Braught, Janet Davis, Amanda Holland-Minkley, Karl Schmitt, Jim Teresco

… not meet the needs of all institutions. In particular, the size of the CS Core, as measured in instructional time or courses, may not be consistent with all … Microkernel – a small set of the most essential CS skills and concepts that all

Sociotechnical AI Education Course Design for CS Majors and Non-Majors

Posters When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 10:00 - 12:00 People: Sri Yash Tadimalla, Mary Lou Maher

… to create a socio-technical curriculum for all ages and education levels … course for CS majors at all levels. This paper provides a curriculum … backgrounds but also equips all students with the critical socio-technical …

Sharing Courses, Faculty, and Resources across Universities: An Argument for Cross-Institution Courses and Localized Support Structures

Panels When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 13:45 - 15:00 People: David J. Malan, Ozan Erat, Sari Kulthm

… , Yale University, and Miami Dade College in which students on all three campuses … other institutions could collaborate similarly in ways that benefit all parties. We argue that COVID-19, all things considered, was a missed opportunity …

Reimagining CS Pathways: Every Student Prepared for a World Powered by Computing

Affiliated Events When: Wed 26 Feb 2025 17:00 - 18:15 People: Bryan Twarek, Julie Smith, Jacob Koressel, Monica McGill

… of all students. To this end, the Reimagining CS Pathways: High School and Beyond … for all high school graduates to know, and (2) example pathways for continued … of the project. It manifests in an effort to reimagine CS to ensure opportunities for all

Teaching Computing in Prison

Birds of a Feather When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 18:30 - 19:20 People: Emma Hogan, Darakhshan Mir, Keith O'Hara, Leo Porter

… from diverse backgrounds. All discussion leaders have experience in and/or plans … welcome all members of the community interested in learning more about …

Presenting Computing Accessibility Education Using Experiential Labs

Posters When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 10:00 - 12:00 People: Heather Moses, Elaina Trapatsos, Farzana Rahman, Samuel Malachowsky, Daniel Krutz

… Ensuring accessibility is essential for developing software that is inclusive for all users. Unfortunately, research shows that a significant portion of modern … accessible software. All materials are available on the project website: https://Anon …

Demo 3A: Enhancing Computing Accessibility Education Using Experiential Labs: A Focus on Color Blindness and Localization

Demos When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 10:00 - 10:45 People: Heather Moses, Elaina Trapatsos, Farzana Rahman, Samuel Malachowsky, Daniel Krutz

… Learning Labs (ALL). These labs aim to teach participants the proper methods …. All project materials are freely accessible on the project website: https …

Mathematics for Machine Learning: A Bridge Course

Posters When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 10:00 - 12:00 People: Samuel Deng

… — all concepts, ideas, and proofs are introduced relative to two ubiquitous …. All the while, least squares and gradient descent provide a motivating preview …

Extending a concept inventory - Covering CS0 - CS2 Topics

ACM Student Research Competition When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 15:00 - 17:00 People: Grace Pascarella, Marques Samary Maíra 

… Students entering Computer Science (CS) programs are arriving at college with a varying knowledge of coding and CS. The rigid structure suggested to all … orientation to data structures and sorting. All students doing CS2 in Fall 2023 …

Using Faded Parsons Problems To Provide A More Challenging Scaffold For Code Writing

ACM Student Research Competition When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 15:00 - 17:00 People: Blessing Ogunfowora, Meera Pradeepan, Jangael Rosales

… To make programming accessible and attainable for all, it is necessary to reevaluate how concepts are taught and scaffolded. This investigation explores how … the experiment, all participants were interviewed to evaluate the effectiveness …

Student Usage of Metacognition-Promoting Tool in a CS2 Course and its Relationship with Performance

Posters When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 15:00 - 17:00 People: Jiaen Yu, Anshul Shah, John Driscoll, Yandong Xiang, Xingyin Xu, Sophia Krause-Levy, Soohyun Liao

… , no prior literature has practiced an intervention that addresses all three …] voluntarily and some students did not fully engage with all metacognition-based …

Grading for Equity in a Hyflex Compiler Design Course

Papers When: Sat 1 Mar 2025 11:22 - 11:41 People: Fatima Abu Deeb, Ella Tuson, Timothy Hickey

… ; there were 3-5 in-class questions in each class. We also used an app to record all … mastery of almost all skills. Finally, in a survey at the end of the course …

Demo 1B: Training Diagrammatic Reasoning with Automated Feedback through CAFÉ 2.0

Demos When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 10:00 - 10:45 People: Geraldine Brieven, Benoit Donnet

… , as their code may not account for all possible input scenarios.

To address … a graphical representation of their solution, ensuring coverage of all potential …

Tutorial 302: Modernizing the CS Introductory Sequence with Parallel and Distributed Computing (and some AI)

Tutorials When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 19:00 - 22:00 People: Alan Sussman, Sushil Prasad, David Bunde, Jaime Spacco, Gerald Gannod, April Crockett, Ramachandran Vaidyanathan

… Parallel and distributed computing (PDC) has become pervasive in all aspects of computing, and thus it is essential that students include parallelism … volumes of data. All computing devices that students use currently have multiple …

Experiences With Computer-Based Testing (CBT)

Birds of a Feather When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 17:30 - 18:20 People: Jim Sosnowski, Armando Fox, Daniel Garcia, Firas Moosvi, Mariana Silva, Matthew West, Craig Zilles

… , technical or logistical considerations, and building buy-in from all levels …

Implementation of a Cryptocurrency Elective Course

Papers When: Sat 1 Mar 2025 14:03 - 14:21 People: Aaron Bloomfield

… . The course was well received, and student feedback was positive. All of the course …

Teaching Assistants' Experiences of and Opinions on CS Ethics

Posters When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 10:00 - 12:00 People: Grace Barkhuff, Ian Pruitt

… ethics was not a universal experience for all TAs, but that a majority of TAs felt …

Student Application Trends for Teaching Assistant Positions

Papers When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 16:22 - 16:41 People: Felix Muzny, Abdulaziz Suria, Carla Brodley

… applications for all courses in a computing department. Focusing on the dimensions … status all play roles in student application behavior. Further, we identify … broadening participation in computing at all levels. …

BOF: Grading for Equity in Computer Science Courses

Birds of a Feather When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 17:30 - 18:20 People: David Largent, Adrienne Decker, Stephen Edwards, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Christian Roberson

… accessible and equitable for all students. …

Developing Computing Lessons for Rural High School Students

Papers When: Sat 1 Mar 2025 11:03 - 11:22 People: Nathan H. Bean, Friday James, Timothy Tucker, Yihong Theis, Joshua Weese, Russell Feldhausen

… Rural populations represent an important and often overlooked audience for broadening participation in computing efforts. More than 20% of all students in the United States live in a rural region, and surveys of access to computing …

Facilitators and Barriers for Integrating Technology Education into K-5 Classrooms

Posters When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 15:00 - 17:00 People: Miriam Jacobson, Zhuoying Wang, Yiwen Yang, Karanjot Kaur

… buy-in, to ensure all K-5 students benefit from comprehensive technology …

Enhancing Cybersecurity Education with Artificial Intelligence Content

Papers When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 16:41 - 17:00 People: Fernando Brito, Yassine Mekdad, Monique Ross, Mark Finlayson, Selcuk Uluagac

… and practical application. A preliminary study with 11 students showed that all

Enhancing Cybersecurity Education using Scoring Engines: A Practical Approach to Hands-On Learning and Feedback

Papers When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 13:45 - 14:03 People: Christopher Morales-Gonzalez, Mathew Harper, Pranathi Rayavaram, Sashank Narain, Xinwen Fu

… and practical application. A preliminary study with 11 students showed that all

Teaching Program Decomposition in CS1: A Conceptual Framework for Improved Code Quality

Papers When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 15:45 - 16:03 People: Georgiana Haldeman, Judah Robbins Bernal, Alec Wydra, Paul Denny

… decomposition skills? We aim to answer all these questions by presenting …

Intersectionality IS Computer Science Education

Keynotes When: Sat 1 Mar 2025 09:00 - 10:00 People: Jamika Burge

… that meets all students’ needs by bringing awareness to the obstacles …

BoF: Challenging Traditional Mentor-Mentee Relationships - Liberatory Mentoring

Birds of a Feather When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 18:30 - 19:20 People: Dale-Marie Wilson, Celeste Malone, Dr. Marlon Mejias, Gloria Washington, Jody Marshall

… This BoF session invites all that are interested in discussing the relationship between mentoring and professional socialization. We will identify common barriers to accessing mentorship and the specific challenges racial and ethnic …

SIGCSE Reads 2025: Community Connections through Fiction

Birds of a Feather When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 12:45 - 13:35 People: Rebecca Bates, Judy Goldsmith, Valerie Summet, Nannette Veilleux

… /esaias_09_21/ will be featured, but we welcome all book discussion.

If you’re …

Prompt-Engineering Strategies for Minimizing Bias in Large Language Model Outputs: Applications in Computing Education

Lightning Talks When: Sat 1 Mar 2025 11:45 - 11:55 People: Jamie Morales, Preeti Raman

… development activities of learners and practitioners alike. Amidst all

Building research capacity through collaboration with MSIs: Broadening Participation in Computing Research

Panels When: Sat 1 Mar 2025 10:45 - 12:00 People: Kinnis Gosha, Patricia Morreale, Talitha Washington

… Establishing productive research collaborations can be complex. As all universities and colleges are unique, the context in which potential collaborators work … all. Specific topics include identifying collaborators, submitting collaborative …

Needs-Supportive Teaching Interventions in an Intro Computer Science Course: Exploring Impacts on Student Motivation and Achievement

Papers When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 16:22 - 16:41 People: Jessica Hunter, Elena Bai, Giulia Alberini, Kristy Robinson

… -determination theory (SDT). Interventions involved providing grading scheme choice for all … the intervention cohort with a previous control cohort. Results indicate that all

Implementing Standards-Focused Professional Development for Middle School CS Teachers: An Experience Report

Papers When: Sat 1 Mar 2025 14:03 - 14:22 People: Carol Tate, Satabdi Basu, Arif Rachmatullah, Hui Yang, Daisy Rutstein

… The “Computer Science for All” initiative advocates for universal access to computer science (CS) instruction. A key strategy toward this end has been to establish CS content standards outlining what all students should have …

dpvis: A Visual and Interactive Learning Tool for Dynamic Programming

Papers When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 14:41 - 15:00 People: David H. Lee, Aditya Prasad, Ramiro Deo-Campo Vuong, Tianyu Wang, Eric Han, David Kempe

… ), essentially all other students found the tool to be useful for understanding …

Exploring ChatGPT as a Qualitative Research Assistant

Posters When: Sat 1 Mar 2025 10:00 - 12:00 People: Angelina Brilliantova, Zack Butler, Ivona Bezakova

… in qualitative research methods. In addition, in a large study, evaluating all

HiPyr: Harnessing HyperNetworks for Optimal Kernel Prediction in Laplacian Translation Networks for Contrast Enhancement

ACM Student Research Competition When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 15:00 - 17:00 People: Aravind Shenoy, Shaurya Singh Rathore, Krish Didwania, Aditya Kasliwal

… to the number of residual blocks and activation functions across all translation …

Designing Experiential Learning with Beehive Sensor Data into a Non-Relational Database Course

Posters When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 10:00 - 12:00 People: Dean Ganskop

… learning for all involved.

Partnering with the beekeeping club on campus, plans …

Computer Science Faculty Perspectives on Undergraduate Student Mental Health

Posters When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 15:00 - 17:00 People: Christian Murphy, Van Nguyen, Asli Yuksel, Sahasra Nandela

… to students of all identities and abilities. As these concerns are often related …

A Joint Taskforce on Undergraduate Data Science Curriculum: An Introduction and Opportunity for Feedback

Lightning Talks When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 10:45 - 10:55 People: Paul Leidig, Maureen Doyle

… to solicit feedback and input on this process. This session should interest all SIGCSE …

What Gets Them Talking? Identifying Catalysts for Student Engagement Within a Computing Ethics Course

Posters When: Sat 1 Mar 2025 10:00 - 12:00 People: Carol Li, Su Min Park, Jedidiah Tsang, Lisa Yan

… , and intersectionality into the classroom. All these variables affect students …

Tutorial 403: Transform Your Computer Science Course with Specifications Grading

Tutorials When: Sat 1 Mar 2025 15:30 - 18:30 People: David Largent, Christian Roberson, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

… on a continuum, and is not an all or nothing approach. Each participant should leave …

Scaffolding Collaborative Software Design with Serious Games

Posters When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 10:00 - 12:00 People: Serena Caraco, Melissa Fabros, Nelson Lojo, Armando Fox

… a single solution. By the activity’s end, the students will have practiced all

Engaging K12 Computer Science Students in Critical Examination of Technology, Justice, Ethics, and Society

Panels When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 15:45 - 17:00 People: Shana V. White, Allison Scott, Aman Yadav, Sepehr Vakil

… their K12 computer science coursework, all students should also be developing …

How We Did It: Integrating Inclusive Design across the Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum

Panels When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 10:45 - 12:00 People: Patricia Morreale, Margaret Burnett, Kyle Harms, Daehan Kwak

… Inclusive design appears rarely, if at all, in most undergraduate computer science (CS) curricula.

As a result, many CS students graduate without knowing how to apply inclusive design to the software they build and go on to careers …

Our journey towards a diverse computing program: what worked, where we are, and what we have learned.

Papers When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 16:22 - 16:41 People: Ana Paula Centeno, Corina Hernandez, Kalrav Pandit

… computing landscape that reflects and serves the needs of all people. Our work toward …

AutoRemind: Improving Student Academic Performance Through a Personalized and Automated Notification System

Posters When: Sat 1 Mar 2025 10:00 - 12:00 People: Oindree Chatterjee, Ankita Sundar, Arihant Choudhary, Connor Bernard, Daniel Garcia

… as a centralized hub for students to gain access to all course deadlines …

The Impact of Group Discussion and Formation on Student Performance: An Experience Report in a Large CS1 Course

Papers When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 11:41 - 12:00 People: Tong Wu, Xiaohang Tang, Sam Wong, Xi Chen, Cliff Shaffer, Yan Chen

… , but this positive effect was not consistent across all groups. We identified challenges …

An MS in CS for non-CS Majors: A Ten Year Retrospective

Papers When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 15:45 - 16:03 People: Logan Schmidt, Caitlin J. Kidder, Ildar Akhmetov, Megan Bebis, Alan C. Jamieson, Albert Lionelle, Sarah Maravetz, Sami Rollins, Ethan Selinger

… across North America and has opened admissions to students from all disciplines …

Measuring the Impact of Distractors on Student Learning Gains while Using Proof Blocks

Papers When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 11:03 - 11:22 People: Seth Poulsen, Hongxuan Chen, Yael Gertner, Benjamin Cosman, Matthew West, Geoffrey Herman

… with distractor lines. All three groups read a book chapter on proof by induction …

Fostering Creativity: Student-Generative AI Teaming in an Open-Ended CS0 Assignment

Papers When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 11:41 - 12:00 People: Daniel Filcik, Edward Sobiesk, Suzanne Matthews

… The increasing ubiquity of web-based generative artificial intelligence technologies necessitates that all students experience teaming with such technologies – exploring their strengths and limitations and learning how to create synergy …

Improving AI in CS1: Leveraging Human Feedback for Better Learning

Papers When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 11:03 - 11:22 People: Rongxin Liu, Julianna Zhao, Benjamin Xu, Christopher Perez, Yuliia Zhukovets, David J. Malan

… explanations, style suggestions, and responses to course-related inquiries—all designed …

Student Perceptions of the Help Resource Landscape

Papers When: Sat 1 Mar 2025 14:41 - 15:00 People: Shao-Heng Ko, Kristin Stephens-Martinez, Matthew Zahn, Yesenia Velasco, Lina Battestilli, Sarah Heckman

… of the resource. We also found men and first-years rate all dimensions as less important …

Using Generative AI to Scaffold the Teaching of Software Engineering Team Skills

Birds of a Feather When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 12:45 - 13:35 People: Armando Fox, Pablo Fernandez, Juho Leinonen, José Antonio Parejo Maestre

… partners, all of which are important basic skills and are amenable to automated …

iFlow - An Interactive Max-Flow Min-Cut Algorithms Visualizer

Papers When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 14:03 - 14:22 People: Muyang Ye, Tianrui Xia, Tianxin Zu, Qian Wang, David Kempe

… learning benefits via an optional survey. All respondents considered the tool …

Experience Report: Using Narratives to Teach Responsible Computing in the U.S. and Nigeria

Papers When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 11:22 - 11:41 People: Stacy Doore, Omowumi Ogunyemi, Alexandra Gillespie, Michael Yankoski

… dilemmas in computing, there are no single fixed solutions to all possible …

Tutorial 405: Creating Your Own Hands-on Cybersecurity Exercises

Tutorials When: Sat 1 Mar 2025 15:30 - 18:30 People: Richard Weiss, Jens Mache, Jack Cook

… students with these exercises. We want to reach and engage all students. …

Designing LLM-Resistant Programming Assignments: Insights and Strategies for CS Educators

Papers When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 14:22 - 14:41 People: Bradley McDanel, Ed Novak

… challenging for all models. LLMs often disregarded assignment requirements, produced …

TA Bot Report: AI Assistants in CS1 Save Students Homework Time and Reduce Demands on Staff. (Now What?)

Papers When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 11:22 - 11:41 People: J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Laryn Qi, Bjoern Hartmann, John DeNero, Narges Norouzi

… Chatbot interfaces for LLMs enable students to get immediate, interactive help on homework assignments, but even a thoughtfully-designed bot may not serve all pedagogical goals. In this paper, we report on the development and deployment …

Experiences using Service Learning in Computer Science

Papers When: Sat 1 Mar 2025 11:41 - 12:00 People: Michael Orsega

… will help motivate all faculty, K12, as well as university-level, to include a service …

Optimizing Prompt Engineering for Automated Text Summarization of Student Reflections: A Comparative Study Using GPT-4 LLM

ACM Student Research Competition When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 15:00 - 17:00 People: Nicole Wiktor

… . However, all prompts faced issues with misrepresenting the distribution …

Retaining Undergraduate Teaching Assistants by Promoting Professional Growth and Fostering a Strong Community

ACM Student Research Competition When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 15:00 - 17:00 People: Zhixian Liding, Athena Malek

… with a central TA identity—all while enhancing the student educational experience. UTAs …

Compiler-Integrated, Conversational AI for Debugging CS1 Programs

Papers When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 14:03 - 14:22 People: Jake Renzella, Alexandra Vassar, Lorenzo Lee Solano, Andrew Taylor

… half of all conversations occur outside of business hours, highlighting the value …

Early Adoption of Custom Generative AI Bots in Online Forums for CS Courses

Lightning Talks When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 15:55 - 16:05 People: Matt Chen

… , with all responses reviewed by teaching staff before being released …

Demo 2B: The Mastery Learning App

Demos When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 15:00 - 15:45 People: Timothy Hickey, Ella Tuson

… and give feedback on student work. All three views, teacher, student, and TA …

Eleventh SPLICE Workshop on Technology and Data Infrastructure for CS Education Research

Affiliated Events When: Wed 26 Feb 2025 08:30 - 17:00 People: Cliff Shaffer, Peter Brusilovsky, Ken Koedinger, Thomas Price, Tiffany Barnes

… Many SIGCSE attendees are either developing or using online educational tools, and all will benefit from better interoperability among these tools and better analysis of the click-stream data coming from those tools. New tools …

Birds of a Feather Who'd Like to Share Software Together: Teaching Tools that Improve Efficiency and Outcomes

Birds of a Feather When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 12:45 - 13:35 People: Doug Lloyd, Yuliia Zhukovets, David J. Malan

… Odds are we’ve all used (or tried!) quite a few tools to facilitate efficiency inside and outside of the classroom and empower students to learn more effectively, whether on campus or off. Some of those tools are perhaps homegrown …

Design of a User Study to evaluate the effectiveness of a Software Security Module for Neurodivergent Students

Posters When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 10:00 - 12:00 People: Sushma Indrani Dangeti, Harini Ramaprasad, Meera Sridhar, Soham Pradhan

… neurodivergent students while continuing to serve all computing students. …

Fostering and Understanding Diverse Interpersonal Connections in a Massive Online CS1 Course

Papers When: Sat 1 Mar 2025 13:45 - 14:03 People: Miranda Li, Ali Malik, Chris Piech

… can help support people from all backgrounds in achieving their diverse …

Building The Tree of Life from Scratch

Nifty Assignments When: Sat 1 Mar 2025 14:22 - 14:35 People: Christopher Tralie

… /, students first compare all pairs of DNA between species using the Needleman …

Literature Mapping: A Scaffolded, Scalable, Low-Overhead Undergraduate Research Experience

Papers When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 16:41 - 17:00 People: Brian Harrington, Aditya Kulkarni, Rohita Nalluri, Anagha Vadarevu, Angela Zavaleta Bernuy

… participated. All of the materials, including sample spreadsheets, and scripts …

A New Class of Teaching-Track Faculty: No Ph.D. Required

Birds of a Feather When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 12:45 - 13:35 People: Michael Ball, Suraj Rampure, Kevin Lin

… with experience at all levels: conversation topics may include how to navigate the job market …

Bridging Disciplines: Integrating Computer Science and Social Studies in Rural Middle Schools

Papers When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 15:45 - 16:03 People: Debra Bernstein, Eric Hochberg, Santiago Gasca, Michael Berson, Kristen Franklin, Perry Shank

… with integration objectives. All lessons addressed standards-aligned CS concepts …

Cognitive Load Dilema: Adding Language Support to CS Curriculum

Lightning Talks When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 11:05 - 11:15 People: Sofia De Jesus, Timothy Barnes, Mark Stehlik, David Kosbie, Erin Bozzo

… translation [2].
In addition to having the translation, the project provides all

Multiple Approaches for Teaching Responsible Computing - A Workshop

Affiliated Events When: Wed 26 Feb 2025 09:30 - 12:30 People: Michelle Trim, Stacy Doore, Atri Rudra, Richard Blumenthal, Joycelyn Streator, Bobby Schnabel

… is grounded in the idea that all computing artifacts, projects, tools, and products …

Collaboratively Developing Dynamic and Interactive Materials for Dive into Systems

Affiliated Events When: Wed 26 Feb 2025 13:00 - 17:45 People: Suzanne Matthews, Tia Newhall, Kevin Webb

… to make computing courses available to all students. Online curricular …

Becoming a Data Scientist: Understanding the Data Science Identity Formation in a Data Science Program

Lightning Talks When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 10:55 - 11:05 People: Rachel Roca

… will be presented. All are welcome to attend the presentation and provide feedback and insight …

CS Concepts and Contextual Factors in Integrated Computing Activities in U.S. Schools

Papers When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 16:03 - 16:22 People: Marya Rahimi, Lauren Margulieux, Erin Anderson

… Integrated computing uses computing tools and concepts to support learning in other disciplines while giving all students opportunities to experience computer science. Integrated computing is often motivated as a way to introduce computing …

Spiral Cultivation of Soft Skills in Computer Science Education

Lightning Talks When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 11:45 - 11:55 People: Noa Ragonis

… acknowledged as essential at all life stages, and are categorized (sometimes …

What Can 10k State CS Standards Reveal about Learning? A New Dataset for Investigation

Lightning Talks When: Sat 1 Mar 2025 11:25 - 11:35 People: Julie Smith, Jacob Koressel, Sofia De Jesus, Joe Kmoch, Bryan Twarek

… of state-level K-12 CS standards for all US states that currently have such standards …

Tutorial 101: Introducing PythonTA: A Suite of Code Analysis and Visualization Tools

Tutorials When: Wed 26 Feb 2025 19:00 - 22:00 People: David Liu

… a series of hands-on demos and activities (all run locally on their laptops …

Engaging Students from Under-Represented Groups to Pursue Graduate School in Computer Science and Engineering

Papers When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 15:45 - 16:03 People: Ravindra Mangar, Cesar Arguello, David Inyangson, Tina Pavlovich, Karen Gareis, Tushar Jois

… experiences and perspectives is essential for creating innovations that serve all

Innovations and Opportunities in Liberal Arts Computing Education

Affiliated Events When: Wed 26 Feb 2025 09:00 - 17:00 People: Jakob Barnard, Grant Braught, Janet Davis, Matthew Ferland, Olive Franzese, Amanda Holland-Minkley, Karl Schmitt, Andrea Tartaro, Jim Teresco

… with others in the liberal arts CS community will be emphasized. All interested faculty …

Exploring Different Specifications Grading Policies

Papers When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 14:41 - 15:00 People: Igor dos Santos Montagner, Rafael Corsi Ferrao, Craig Zilles, Mariana Silva

… Alternative grading practices, such as specifications grading, have been reported to increase student engagement, decrease instructor workload, and ensure a minimum mastery of all course topics. However, there are also reports of decreased …

Can a Free Tool in an Ebook Platform, Searchable Question Bank, and Summer Workshop Help Instructors Adopt Peer Instruction?

Papers When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 11:22 - 11:41 People: Barbara Ericson, Xingjian Gu, Zihan Wu, Shefali Patel, Aadarsh Padiyath

… (18/26, 69%). Notably, all of the instructors who used the free tool planned to use …

A Case Study of Elementary Teachers’ Enactment of an NGSS-Aligned Computer Science Lesson: Verbal Support of Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science Integration

Papers When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 10:45 - 11:03 People: Sarah Lilly, Anne McAlister, Jennifer Chiu

… included transcripts of all whole-class discussions that occurred while the two …

Embedding Executable Code in Programming Slideshows: Design Considerations and Field Tests for Interactive Code Playgrounds

Papers When: Sat 1 Mar 2025 14:03 - 14:21 People: Lorenzo Angeli, Luca De Menego, Maurizio Marchese

… When students take introductory programming courses in university, they often need to setup a development environment. Development environments enable all students to execute code, but also provide a uniform environment to compare results …

'Do I Have to Take This Class?': A Review of Ethics Requirements in Computer Science Curricula

Papers When: Thu 27 Feb 2025 10:45 - 11:03 People: James Weichert, Dayoung Kim, Qin Zhu, Hoda Eldardiry

… , finding that almost half of all universities we review do not offer any ethics course …

A Scaffolding-based Approach for Addressing Challenges of Service Learning Adoption

Posters When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 15:00 - 17:00 People: Stan Kurkovsky, Michael Goldweber, Chad Williams, Nathan Sommer

… that guides CBSL adopters through all stages of a CBSL experience. The CSLAM framework …

Unlocking Student Potential With TA-Bot: Timely Submissions and Improved Code Style

Papers When: Fri 28 Feb 2025 14:03 - 14:22 People: Jack Forden, Matthew Schneider, Alexander Gebhard, Md. Tahmidul Islam Molla, Dennis Brylow

… after successfully passing all correctness test cases. Notably, this improvement …

KernelVM: Teaching Linux Kernel Programming through a Browser-Based Virtual Machine

Papers When: Sat 1 Mar 2025 11:22 - 11:41 People: Elliott Wen, Sean Ma, Paul Denny, Ewan Tempero, Gerald Weber, Zongcheng Yue

… toolchains. KernelVM is accessible via any browser on any device, performing all

Analyzing Pedagogical Quality and Efficiency of LLM Responses with TA Feedback to Live Student Questions

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