One notable part of the academia-industry gap is the deficiency in computing ecosystem literacy, which may result in college graduates exhibiting little technical knowledge of software development tools and practices commonly used in industry. This ...

The computer science education community has created many adaptive feedback tools and intelligent tutoring systems to improve students' experience in computing-related courses. However, the extent to which these systems-which we collectively refer to as ...

Research on feedback in introductory programming focuses mostly on incomplete and incorrect programs. However, most of the functionally correct programs also contain defects that call for feedback. We analyzed 114,000 solutions to 161 short coding ...

As the effectiveness of algorithms to make decisions improves and as the use of algorithms in domains, which can have a significant impact in determining one's life prospects increases, it is important to understand undergraduate students' perceptions ...

As schools begin offering more opportunities for computer science education, it is important to consider the viewpoints of all stakeholders. Parents, in particular, can have an outsize impact on their children's educational experience and attitudes ...

Desirable difficulties such as retrieval practice (testing) and spacing (distributed studying) are shown to improve long-term learning. Despite their knowledge about the benefits of retrieval practice, students struggle with application. We propose a ...

Introductory computer science courses are characterized by difficulty, which may contribute to the low success rate, diversity, and retention in these key courses. Difficulty in programming projects was found to result in negative self-efficacy ...

There is wide-spread agreement that K-12 students need opportunities to explore computer science (CS) concepts and computational thinking within a wide array of disciplines for advancing, broadening, and diversifying the participation in CS. Programs ...

The rapid expansion of K-12 CS education has made it critical to support CS teachers, many of whom are new to teaching CS, with the necessary resources and training to strengthen their understanding of CS concepts and how to effectively teach CS. CS ...

Women's participation rates in the Computer Science (CS) field are alarmingly lower than men's in K-12 and higher education as well as in the workforce. Research has been done to explore when young women's potential interest in the field typically ...

To broaden participation in computing, learning materials should relate to a diverse spectrum of student perspectives. This paper introduces Codewit.us, an online platform for under-represented minority (URM) students in computing to share examples of ...

Humans adjust how they speak depending on context. Two key facets of this are utilizing different vocabulary and speaking rates depending on the audience. Exactly how we use language while teaching may depend on our students, their backgrounds and needs,...

Often, security topics are only taught in advanced computer science (CS) courses. However, most US R1 universities do not require students to take these courses to complete an undergraduate CS degree. As a result, students can graduate without learning ...

Service learning-an educational experience in which students provide service to a community partner while learning content knowledge, professional skills, and critical thinking-can provide significant benefits to students and the community. We present ...

Oral proficiency exams implemented in introductory programming courses at a public, research, minority-serving university provide a way to connect with students one-on-one, keep students accountable on the course material to improve their learning, and ...

To encourage and support faculty to adopt active learning pedagogies, we need to understand: (1) what faculty perceive as the challenges and benefits of adoption; and (2) how professional development and support affect faculty adoption. This paper ...

Previous studies have shown that non-native English speakers (NNES) have lower confidence levels at the beginning of the term and higher academic expectations for themselves throughout the term. Additionally, although non-native English speakers study ...

With the shift to online delivery, instructors looked to provide comparable help supports for students, especially for first-year learners who need timely assistance the most. Our work aims to understand student help seeking behavior and perception of ...

Within computer science education, a growth mindset is encouraged. However, faculty development on the use of growth mindset in the classroom is rare and resources to support the use of a growth mindset are limited. A framework for a computer science ...

As a solution to the challenge of motivating and retaining undergraduate introductory computer science students, game development and image manipulation are popular motivational contexts in introductory computer science (CS1) classrooms. However, there ...