Week

Date

Topic

Readings

1

9/26

Intros & Planning

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2

10/03

Physical Computing

Tofel-Grehl, C., Feldon, D., Jeong, S., Searle, K., Hansen, T., & Bennett, B. (2023). "Impacts of maker technologies on classroom learning outcomes: A mixed methods explanatory study". The Journal of Educational Research, 116(4), 198–205. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220671.2023.2239185

3

10/10

CS Ed Intro/How to read a research paper

Eman Sherif, Jayne Everson, F. Megumi Kivuva, Mara Kirdani-Ryan, and Amy J. Ko. 2024. Exploring the Impact of Assessment Policies on Marginalized Students' Experiences in Post-Secondary Programming Courses. In (ICER '24), 233–245. https://doi.org/10.1145/3632620.3671100.

4

10/17

Multilingual CS Ed

Ismael Villegas Molina, Adrian Salguero, Shera Zhong, and Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj. 2023. The Effects of Spanish-English Bilingual Instruction in a CS0 Course for High School Students. (ITiCSE 2023). 75–81. https://doi.org/10.1145/3587102.3588845 

5

10/24

CS History

Geoffrey M. Draper, Robert R. Kessler, and Richard F. Riesenfeld. 2009. A history of computing course with a technical focus. In (SIGCSE '09), 458–462. https://doi.org/10.1145/1508865.1509024

6

10/31

CS Major Curriculum – degrees, programs, and design philosophy

Luther Tychonievich and Mark Sherriff. 2022. Engineering a Complete Curriculum Overhaul. In (SIGCSE 2022), 453–459. https://doi.org/10.1145/3478431.3499287 

7

11/07

K-12 CS Education – in a rural context

Nathan H. Bean, Joshua Levi Weese, Russell Feldhausen, David S. Allen, and Michelle Friend. CS Education For Rural K-12 Schools.

8

11/14

Grading & Assessment

Amin Sakzad, David Paul, Judithe Sheard, Ljiljana Brankovic, Matthew P. Skerritt, Nan Li, Sepehr Minagar, Simon, and William Billingsley. 2024. Diverging assessments: What, Why, and Experiences. In (SIGCSE 2024). 1161–1167. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626252.3630832

9

11/21

Computational thinking/Fluency/Literacy

Iwatani, E., Coenraad, M., & Dunbar, K. M. (2024). Bridging cultures and computing: Exploring the relationship between Appalachian problem solving and computational thinking. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/15391523.2024.2399257

10

11/28

Thanksgiving - no meeting

No readings this week.

11

12/05

Adding Generative AI to courses

Paul Denny, Stephen MacNeil, Jaromir Savelka, Leo Porter, and Andrew Luxton-Reilly. 2024. Desirable Characteristics for AI Teaching Assistants in Programming Education. In (ITiCSE 2024) 408–414. https://doi.org/10.1145/3649217.3653574