The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) is in the process of updating their influential standards. It’s a long process, and it started last summer with a visioning document called “Reimagi…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
I participated at the first SIGCSE Virtual Conference last December. I was on a panel “Assessments for Non-CS Major Computing Classes” (see the ACM DL paper here). The panelists were excellent. I w…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
I’m hesitant to state a preference for my favorite paper at the International Computing Education Research (ICER) Conference in 2024. There were so many cool papers (including some by my students!)…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
I’m on sabbatical this semester, so I finally have time to catch up on some long overdue blog posts. Bahare at her defense with her committee: From left, Barbara Ericson, Shanna Daly, James Holly J…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
I (finally) finished grading midterms and first round of grad student essays from my joint undergrad/grad “Educational Technology” class last night. The first phase of the class was an …| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
One of the persistent research questions in computing education research (CER) is, “If you learn something in programming, can you use that something somewhere else?” Learning scientists call this …| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
After we got the go-ahead to start developing PCAS (see an update on PCAS here), I had meetings with a wide range of liberal arts and sciences faculty. I’d ask faculty how they used computing in th…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
I am presenting two “Tips and Techniques” papers at the ITiCSE 2023 conference in Turku, Finland on Tuesday July 11th. The papers are presenting the same scaffolded sequence of programming language…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
My main activity for the last year has been building two new courses for our new Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences (PCAS), which I’ve blogged about recently here (with video of a talk …| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
In May, my students and I published a paper in Communications of the ACM, “Putting a Teaspoon of Programming into Other Subjects” (see link here) about our work with teaspoon languages.…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take