Proceedings of the seventh international workshop on Computing education research

Abstract

We welcome you to Aarhus and to the Sixth International Computing Education Research Workshop, ICER 2010, sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education (SIGCSE). This year's workshop continues its tradition of being the premier forum for presentation of contributions to the computing education research discipline. The call for papers attracted 38 submissions. All papers were double-blind peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee. After the reviewing, 12 papers (32%) were accepted for inclusion in the conference, written by authors across six countries: Australia, Finland, Germany, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The papers span a wide variety of topics, including tools and tool use; conceptions, preconceptions, and misconceptions; attitudes; collaborative learning; research categorization; teacher adaptation to new paradigms; and broad-scale adoption of computing innovations. The program also includes a keynote address by Mordechai (Moti) Ben-Ari from Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, outlining the non-myths about programming and what this knowledge might offer to computing education researchers and course designers.