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This research focuses on creating engaging activities for MOOCs by applying gamification principles. We will implement the gamification techniques used in Wordle game [15] and create SQL-Wordle. This intervention will be created using reinforcement, ...

SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) application software products have become ubiquitous over the last decade. These are complex software systems from a design, creation and comprehension perspective. In this research, we are proposing a new way of ...

Due to increasing cyber crimes, cyber security analyst and problem solvers are in huge demand. These designations entail certain skills which an individual needs to acquire such as analyzing logs, system debugging etc. Through teacher-student interviews ...

A persistent skills gap within the technology industry's workforce hinders numerous organizations from producing genuinely accessible products and services in line with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards. This gap increases their ...

Our research goal is to understand the essential use of mental and conceptual models of Computer Science(CS) students in solving real-world graph problems. Most Computer Science(CS) students understand and assimilate graph-related algorithms, however ...

We want CS students to be self-reliant, self-determined active agents to perform action toward their learning goals. Self-directed learning (SDL) is considered to be useful for fostering engagement, autonomy, freedom, and decision-making skills among ...

CSforALL is an umbrella term for a movement that seeks to bring engaging, culturally-relevant, and meaningful computer science to all students. It includes many avenues for learning – after-school outreach activities, once-a-year ''Hour of Code'' ...

In this panel, we will engage in a discussion of how to conduct research (including choosing areas of focus) that benefits all learners who are learning computer science. We will bring together leaders in CS education and CS education research to discuss ...

This panel examines Computer Science Curricula 2023 (CS2023) from different perspectives. All panelists serve on the CS2023 steering committee and have an intimate understanding of CS2023. The moderator will lay out its overall vision and structure while ...

In this poster, we present an interactive Web application that allows the student to input lambda expressions and interactively evaluate these expressions, one beta-reduction at a time. This tool will provide a platform for students to better understand ...

SQL programming language is very important for a student of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) field from a curriculum perspective as well as it is a desirable skill. SQL also requires regular practice to learn and efficiently apply it for solving ...

This research proposes an AI-assisted mentoring system for programming education, leveraging the advanced capabilities of OpenAI's GPT-4. We aim to validate students' pseudocode or algorithmic approaches to Python programming problems within the context ...

Previous work has mostly investigated the top errors made by novice Java and Python learners to explore enhancing error messages, manifestation of misconceptions, or inform instructor decisions. We build on this work by analyzing anonymized data from ...

As computer science is more widely introduced across India, significant challenges remain in increasing access for young people. Through a partnership with the state government of Odisha, we report the experience of supporting government high-school ...

In this poster, we describe a theoretical model aimed at developing future human computational thinking in students. We describe a blended pedagogy drawing approaches from multiple disciplines such as social sciences, design, ethics, and computing to ...

Students need to understand the assessment of requirements correctness while building software systems. It helps produce products that meet the stakeholder objectives. This poster illustrates an experiment conducted as a tool-based collaborative ...

Modeling software systems as transition systems can improve system comprehension for novice engineers and graduating students. However, this requires them to learn the vocabulary of transition systems and its use. We hypothesize that it is not hard for ...

As software systems become increasingly complex, it is important that students develop software-is-system mindset. Our research aims to help engineers comprehend architecture patterns better using systems approach. We postulate that such an understanding ...

Inspired by Grading for Equity [1, 2], we embarked on an ambitious pilot for our introductory non-majors university course in the fall of 2022 (n=234) and spring of 2023 (n=107). We have six projects (five programming, one essay), and decided to remove ...

A continually existing skills gap in the technology industry's workforce prevents many organizations from creating truly accessible products and services according to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards, increasing their risk of ...

Our research is an extension of the modeling theory framework proposed by Hestenes [1]. An exploratory study examined how Computer Science (CS) students use mental and conceptual models to solve real-world problems using graph algorithmic concepts. The ...

Certified Computer Science (CS) teachers play a crucial role in expanding the enrollment of secondary school students in CS courses and promoting the development of new skills. This poster presents a comprehensive analysis of secondary school CS ...

Sense of belonging, or belongingness, is an individual's subjective experience of being accepted and valued within an academic community. Student belongingness is important because it is associated with well-being, academic engagement, persistence, and ...

Student-directed learning (SDL) is considered to be useful for fostering engagement, autonomy, freedom, and decision-making skills among students. However, incorporating SDL is a challenging task. Several learning strategies are implemented based on SDL. ...

The effect of ChatGPT (CG) on teachers, assessment and other matters have been discussed in many works, but no one appears to have studied how students are actually using it. We study how students use CG for coursework, a semester long project, and ...

Novice learners initiating computational Thinking face challenges of complexity and have a longer learning curve to understand the interfaces. The contexts in an introductory CT lesson are seldom situated in the learners' real-life. In order to make CT ...

The fixed control structure of deterministic algorithms renders their behavior traceable but not amenable to interactive exploration.

In the accompanying poster, we illustrate how the runs of a transition system simulating a family of algorithms form the ...

Research shows many students struggle to use programming error and warning messages effectively. Instead of using these messages as aids to debug and fix their code, some students have negative emotional reactions to seeing 'angry red text'. Not ...

This working group aims to identify available datasets within the context of computing education research. One particular area of interest is programming education, and the data in question may include students' steps, progress, or submissions in the ...