Kate Sanders
ABSTRACT
It is easy and sometimes necessary -- for example when you're finishing your doctoral thesis -- to focus only on your current research project. But what will you do when that project is done? Taking a longer perspective, what is your research agenda for the next ten years?
In this talk, I will outline what ten years of research might look like, with examples from a variety of projects I've worked on during the past ten years, and then open the discussion with the question, "What research would you like to do in the next 5-10 years?"
- D. Bouvier, T.-Y. Chen, G. Lewandowski, R. McCartney, K. Sanders, and T. VanDeGrift. User Interface Evaluation by Novices. In ITiCSE '12: Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, pages 327--332, 2012. Google Scholar
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- A. Eckerdal, R. McCartney, J. E. Moström, M. Ratcliffe, K. Sanders, and C. Zander. Putting Threshold Concepts into Context in Computer Science Education. In ITiCSE '06: Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, pages 103--107, 2006. Google ScholarDigital Library
- A. Eckerdal, R. McCartney, J. E. Moström, M. Ratcliffe, and C. Zander. Can Graduating Students Design Software Systems? In SIGCSE '06: Proceedings of the 37th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pages 403--407, 2006. Google ScholarDigital Library
- A. Eckerdal, R. McCartney, J. E. Moström, K. Sanders, L. Thomas, and C. Zander. From Limen to Lumen: computing students in liminal spaces. In ICER '07: Proceedings of the 3rd International Computing Education Research Workshop, pages 123--132, 2007. Google ScholarDigital Library
- S. Fitzgerald, B. Hanks, and R. McCauley. Collaborative Research in Computer Science Education: a case study. In SIGCSE '10: Proceedings of the 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pages 305--309, 2010. Google ScholarDigital Library
- M. Guzdial. Exploring Hypotheses About Media Computation. In ICER '13: Proceedings of the 9th International Computing Education Research Workshop, pages 19--26, 2013. Google ScholarDigital Library
- G. Lewandowski, D. J. Bouvier, T.-Y. Chen, R. McCartney, K. Sanders, B. Simon, and T. VanDeGrift. Commonsense Understanding of Concurrency: computing students and concert tickets. Commun. ACM, 53(7):60--70, 2010. Google ScholarDigital Library
- R. Lister, E. Adams, S. Fitzgerald, W. Fone, J. Hamer, M. Lindholm, R. McCartney, J. Mostrom, K. Sanders, O. Seppala, B. Simon, and L. Thomas. A Multi-National Study of Reading and Tracing Skills in Novice Programmers. SIGCSE Bull., 36(4):119--150, December 2004. Google ScholarDigital Library
- R. McCartney, D. J. Bouvier, T.-Y. Chen, G. Lewandowski, K. Sanders, B. Simon, and T. VanDeGrift. Commonsense Computing (Episode 5): algorithm efficiency and balloon testing. In ICER '09: Proceedings of the 5th International Computing Education Research Workshop, pages 51--62, 2009. Google ScholarDigital Library
- R. McCartney, A. Eckerdal, J. E. Mostrom, K. Sanders, and C. Zander. Successful Students' Strategies for Getting Unstuck. In ITiCSE '07: Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, pages 156--160, 2007. Google ScholarDigital Library
- M. McCracken, V. Almstrum, D. Diaz, M. Guzdial, D. Hagan, Y. B.-D. Kolikant, C. Laxer, L. Thomas, I. Utting, and T. Wilusz. A Multi-National, Multi-Institutional Study of Assessment of Programming Skills of First-Year CS Students. SIGCSE Bull., 33(4):125--180, Dec. 2001. Google ScholarDigital Library
- J. H. Meyer and R. Land. Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge (2): epistemological considerations and a conceptual framework for teaching and learning. Higher Education, 49:373--388, 2005.Google ScholarCross Ref
- B. Morrison, M. Clancy, R. McCartney, B. Richards, and K. Sanders. Applying Data Structures in Exams. In SIGCSE '11: Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pages 353--358, 2011. Google ScholarDigital Library
- K. Sanders, M. Ahmadzadeh, T. Clear, S. H. Edwards, M. Goldweber, C. Johnson, R. Lister, R. McCartney, E. Patitsas, and J. Spacco. The Canterbury Questionbank: building a repository of multiple-choice CS1 and CS2 questions. In ITiCSE '13: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (working group reports), pages 33--52, 2013. Google ScholarDigital Library
- K. Sanders, J. Boustedt, A. Eckerdal, R. McCartney, J. E. Moström, L. Thomas, and C. Zander. Threshold Concepts and Threshold Skills in Computing. In ICER '12: Proceedings of the 8th International Computing Education Research Workshop, pages 23--30, 2012. Google ScholarDigital Library
- K. Sanders, S. Fincher, D. Bouvier, G. Lewandowski, B. Morrison, L. Murphy, M. Petre, B. Richards, J. Tenenberg, L. Thomas, R. Anderson, R. Anderson, S. Fitzgerald, A. Gutschow, S. Haller, R. Lister, R. McCauley, J. McTaggart, C. Prasad, T. Scott, S.-K. D., S. Westbrook, and C. Zander. A Multi-Institutional, Multi-National Study of Programming Concepts Using Card-Sort Data. Expert Systems, 22(3):121--128, 2005.Google Scholar
- K. Sanders, B. Richards, J. E. Moström, V. Almstrum, S. Edwards, S. Fincher, K. Gunion, M. Hall, B. Hanks, S. Lonergan, R. McCartney, B. Morrison, J. Spacco, and L. Thomas. DCER: sharing empirical computer science education data. In ICER '08: Proceedings of the 4th International Computing Education Research Workshop, pages 137--148, 2008. Google ScholarDigital Library
- B. Simon, D. Bouvier, T.-Y. Chen, G. Lewandowski, R. McCartney, and K. Sanders. Commonsense Computing (Episode 4): debugging. Computer Science Education, 18(2):117--133, 2008.Google ScholarCross Ref
- B. Simon, T.-Y. Chen, G. Lewandowski, R. McCartney, and K. Sanders. Commonsense Computing: what students know before we teach (episode 1: sorting). In ICER '06: Proceedings of the 2d International Computing Education Research Workshop, pages 29--40, 2006. Google ScholarDigital Library
- B. Simon, M. Clancy, R. McCartney, B. Morrison, B. Richards, and K. Sanders. Making Sense of Data Structures Exams. In ICER '10: Proceedings of the 6th International Computing Education Research Workshop, pages 97--106, 2010. Google ScholarDigital Library
- C. Zander, J. Boustedt, R. McCartney, J. E. Moström, K. Sanders, and L. Thomas. Student Transformations: are they computer scientists yet? In ICER '09: Proceedings of the 5th International Computing Education Research Workshop, pages 129--140, 2009. Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- Card sorts, commonsense, and thresholds: a case study in CS education research
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