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ITiCSE Working Groups as an Engine for Community-Building

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Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research

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In this chapter, we investigate the way in which the ITiCSE working groups serve as a path into computing-education research. Previous analysis has shown that working group participants are both highly collaborative and open to working with newcomers. Newcomers comprise over 50% of group members each year and they are rapidly connected to the larger working-group community. As long as there have been working-group old-timers (since the second year the working groups were held), nearly all working groups have included both newcomers and old-timers. Here, we update this analysis to cover all the in-person working groups through 2019 and look more closely at the nature of these collaborations. Through 2019, we found, working-group members quickly became part of a community, closely connected to the large majority of working-group members, past and present. Working groups give their members the opportunity to work with people they have never published with before, from other institutions and a wide variety of different countries, and to work beside and learn from established researchers in the field. In addition, most working groups lead to some future collaborations by authors who worked together there for the first time.

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Notes

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    The exact number of days and whether they are before, after, or partially during the conference has varied slightly from time to time.

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    The maximum percentage of Merge papers for the six computing-education conferences, 8.5% (shown in Table 2), was reported in [18] as an outlier and inadvertently omitted in [13]. Instead, the second-highest value, 6.5%, was reported as the maximum. We correct that omission here.

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    For convenience, we will display papers as [venue year number].

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  3. University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

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McCartney, R., Sanders, K. (2023). ITiCSE Working Groups as an Engine for Community-Building. In: Apiola, M., López-Pernas, S., Saqr, M. (eds) Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25336-2_11

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