Northwestern CS Education Reading Group

Winter 2023 Schedule

Winter 2023 Schedule

  • Week 1 (Feb 10): Introductions and Reading Schedule
  • Week 2 (Feb 17): Paulo Blikstein and Sepi Hejazi Moghadam. 2019. Computing Education: Literature Review and Voices from the Field. In The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research, Anthony V. Robins and Sally A. Fincher (eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 56–78. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108654555.004
  • Week 3 (Feb 24): Sara Vogel, Rafi Santo, and Dixie Ching. 2017. Visions of Computer Science Education: Unpacking Arguments for and Projected Impacts of CS4All Initiatives. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ‘17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 609–614. https://doi.org/10.1145/3017680.3017755
  • Week 4 (Mar 3):
    • Alicia Nicki Washington. 2020. When Twice as Good Isn’t Enough: The Case for Cultural Competence in Computing. In Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ‘20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 213–219. https://doi.org/10.1145/3328778.3366792
    • Leo Porter, Cynthia Bailey Lee, and Beth Simon. 2013. Halving fail rates using peer instruction: a study of four computer science courses. In Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE ‘13). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 177–182. https://doi.org/10.1145/2445196.2445250
  • Week 5 (Mar 10): No meeting for CS PhD Visit Weekend
  • Week 6 (Mar 17):
    • Allan Fisher and Jane Margolis. 2002. Unlocking the clubhouse: the Carnegie Mellon experience. SIGCSE Bull. 34, 2 (June 2002), 79–83. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/543812.543836
    • Optional: Mark Guzdial and Allison Elliott Tew. 2006. Imagineering inauthentic legitimate peripheral participation: an instructional design approach for motivating computing education. In Proceedings of the second international workshop on Computing education research (ICER ’06), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 51–58. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/1151588.1151597
    • Optional: A. Forte and M. Guzdial. 2004. Computers for communication, not calculation: media as a motivation and context for learning. In 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2004. Proceedings of the, IEEE, Big Island, HI, USA, 10 pp. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2004.1265259