Week

Date

Topic

Readings

1

9/28

Intros & Planning

2

10/05

Generative AI and Education

Marian Daun and Jennifer Brings. 2023. How ChatGPT Will Change Software Engineering Education. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1 (ITiCSE 2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 110–116. https://doi.org/10.1145/3587102.3588815

Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Stephen MacNeil, Sami Sarsa, Seth Bernstein, Joanne Kim, Andrew Tran, and Arto Hellas. 2023. Comparing Code Explanations Created by Students and Large Language Models. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1 (ITiCSE 2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 124–130. https://doi.org/10.1145/3587102.3588785 

3

10/12

CS Education Research Methods

Required to read these sections of the CS education research methods blog posts:

• Non-Experimental vs. Experimental Design
• Survey design
• Pre and post-tests:

Papers that use different research methods (required to read 1):

Leo Porter, Cynthia Bailey Lee, Beth Simon, and Daniel Zingaro. 2011. Peer instruction: do students really learn from peer discussion in computing?. In Proceedings of the seventh international workshop on Computing education research (ICER '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 45-52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2016911.2016923 

Scott Spurlock. 2023. Improving Student Motivation by Ungrading. In Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSE 2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 631–637. https://doi.org/10.1145/3545945.3569747 

4

10/19

CS Major curriculum

Society, Ethics and Professionalism section on pages d of the ACM Curriculum Document https://csed.acm.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Version-Gamma.pdf 

5

10/26

Grading & Assessment of Students - How to evaluate student learning

Qiang Hao, David Smith, Lu Ding, Amy J. Ko, Camille Ottaway, Jack Wilson, Kai Hicks, Alistair Turcan, Timothy Poehlman, Tyler Greer (2021) Towards Understanding the Effective Design of Automated Formative Feedback for Programming Assignments Computer Science Education https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2020.1860408 Pages 2-17 (106-121).

Rachel S. Lim, Joe Gibbs Politz, Mia Minnes. Stream Your Exam to the Course Staff: Asynchronous Assessment via Student-Recorded Code Trace Videos. In SIGCSE 2023: Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 March 2023 Pages 144–150 https://doi.org/10.1145/3545945.3569803

6

11/02

Natural + Programming Second Language Acquisition

Required:

• Intro to Second Language Acquisition (SLA) (make sure to read this first)
• Coding as language learning
• Programming as a Second Language (skim if you don’t have time)

7

11/09

Education and Learning Theory 

Lauren E. Margulieux, Brian Dorn, Kristin A. Searle (2019)  Chapter 8: Learning Sciences for Computing Education.  In S. A. Fincher &  A. V. Robins (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, [4-10]

Kugel, P. (1993). How Professors Develop as Teachers. Studies in Higher Education, 18, 315-328. https://www.mach.kit.edu/download/HowProfessorsDevelop.pdf

8

11/16

K-12 CS Education – curriculum and adoption and low-resource issues

Read part 1(Introduction), part 5(Survey Results), and part 8(CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK)

Ethel Tshukudu, Sue Sentance, Oluwatoyin Adelakun-Adeyemo, Brenda Nyaringita, Keith Quille, Ziling Zhong. Investigating K-12 Computing Education in Four African Countries (Botswana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda), ACM Transactions on Computing EducationVolume 23 Issue 1 Article No.: 9pp 1–29 https://doi.org/10.1145/3554924

9

11/23

Thanksgiving Holiday

No readings

10

11/30

Accessibility I

Draft book Teaching Accessible Computing, edited by Amy J. Ko, Richard Ladner, and Alannah Oleson: Chapter Teaching Inclusively (from a disability perspective) written by Jen Mankoff (guest speaker) and her grad student Avery Mack.

12/07

Accessibility II

Watch this video of the panel: "What and How to Teach about Accessibility". Specifically, Amy Ko and Paula Gabbert's portions at minutes 5:20 - 11:00 and 32:24 - 42:00.