Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education最新文献

Using Learning Analytics to Investigate Patterns of Performance and Engagement in Large Classes 使用学习分析研究大班学生的表现和参与模式

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education Pub Date : 2017-03-08 DOI: 10.1145/3017680.3017711

Hassan Khosravi, K. Cooper

引用次数: 33

CORP: Co-operative Remote Practicum Work Experience Model for Software Engineering Education 软件工程教育的远程合作实习模式

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education Pub Date : 2017-03-08 DOI: 10.1145/3017680.3017710

Dannie M. Stanley

引用次数: 0

Making Robot Challenges with Virtual Robots 用虚拟机器人进行机器人挑战

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education Pub Date : 2017-03-08 DOI: 10.1145/3017680.3017700

Kevin J. Gucwa, Harry H. Cheng

引用次数: 9

Computer Science Outreach with End-User Robot-Programming Tools 计算机科学推广与终端用户机器人编程工具

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education Pub Date : 2017-03-08 DOI: 10.1145/3017680.3017796

Vivek Paramasivam, Justin Huang, Sarah Elliott, M. Cakmak

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引用次数: 21

A Final Project Report on CS4Alabama: A Statewide Professional Development Initiative for CS Principles (Abstract Only) CS4Alabama: CS原则在全州范围内的专业发展倡议的最终项目报告(仅摘要)

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education Pub Date : 2017-03-08 DOI: 10.1145/3017680.3022420

K. Haynie, Jeff Gray, S. Packman, Carol Crawford, Mary Boehm, Jonathan Corley

{"title":"A Final Project Report on CS4Alabama: A Statewide Professional Development Initiative for CS Principles (Abstract Only)","authors":"K. Haynie, Jeff Gray, S. Packman, Carol Crawford, Mary Boehm, Jonathan Corley","doi":"10.1145/3017680.3022420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3017680.3022420","url":null,"abstract":"This poster describes how this project has induced teacher preparation and broadened student participation in Computer Science Principles throughout Alabama from 2013-2016. We will describe our professional development (PD) model, gain for participating instructors, results of CS Principles course implementations, and student engagement and outcomes. A statewide and scalable \"Teacher Leader\" model of professional development was implemented throughout the project. In person training was coupled with on-line course content, geographically proximal teacher groups, and periodic teacher hangouts. Teachers in each cohort collaborated together on developing course content and pedagogy, fostered by peer leaders from earlier cohorts. Instructors encouraged and engaged their students; student agreed that the learning environments supported diversity. Students gained significantly in core computer science content (i.e., abstraction and algorithms) as well as computational thinking practices. Female students showed robust gains on a number of indicators (including higher course grades than males); under-represented minority students showed positive gains in content knowledge. The majority of students said they were likely or possibly likely to pursue computer science in college, and that taking CS Principles impacted their decisions.","PeriodicalId":344382,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education","volume":"151 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115092190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Emerging Learning Progressions in K-5 Integrated Mathematics And Computer Science Lesson Plans (Abstract Only) K-5综合数学和计算机科学教案的新兴学习进展(仅摘要)

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education Pub Date : 2017-03-08 DOI: 10.1145/3017680.3022421

Maya Israel, T. Lash, G. Reese

{"title":"Emerging Learning Progressions in K-5 Integrated Mathematics And Computer Science Lesson Plans (Abstract Only)","authors":"Maya Israel, T. Lash, G. Reese","doi":"10.1145/3017680.3022421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3017680.3022421","url":null,"abstract":"There is growing momentum to integrate computer science (CS) education across K-12, but there is little information about how this integration should take place (Grover & Pea, 2013). This is especially true in the elementary grades, as fewer studies have examined computing at these grades. Through a National Science Foundation STEM+C project, we are developing and studying learning progressions for integrated CS and mathematics at the elementary level. Our research examines how teachers are introducing CS concepts within mathematic as well as what computational concepts and practices naturally can be taught within the context of elementary mathematics. We are also examining how these emerging progressions align with the K-12 CS Framework and the new standards from the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA). Future aims are to develop a coherent set of learning progressions related to areas such as debugging, sequencing, looping, conditionals, and decomposition within mathematics topics such as geometry, fractions, and arithmetic number stories. Our research lays the groundwork for the development of learning trajectories that will guide curriculum developers and practitioners to understand how to teach students across grades K-5 computing within the context of their mathematics instruction.","PeriodicalId":344382,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education","volume":"436 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116014008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Bringing Real-Time Collaboration to Visual Programming (Abstract Only) 为可视化编程带来实时协作(仅抽象)

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education Pub Date : 2017-03-08 DOI: 10.1145/3017680.3022387

B. Broll, Á. Lédeczi

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引用次数: 1

Evaluating the Effect of Using Physical Manipulatives to Foster Computational Thinking in Elementary School 评价小学生使用物理教具培养计算思维的效果

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education Pub Date : 2017-03-08 DOI: 10.1145/3017680.3017791

Ashish Aggarwal, Christina Gardner-Mccune, D. Touretzky

引用次数: 15

Distributed Programming with NetsBlox is a Snap! (Abstract Only) 使用NetsBlox进行分布式编程非常简单!(抽象)

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education Pub Date : 2017-03-08 DOI: 10.1145/3017680.3022379

B. Broll, Á. Lédeczi

{"title":"Distributed Programming with NetsBlox is a Snap! (Abstract Only)","authors":"B. Broll, Á. Lédeczi","doi":"10.1145/3017680.3022379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3017680.3022379","url":null,"abstract":"NetsBlox is a new collaborative learning environment extending Snap! with a few carefully selected abstractions that enable students to create distributed applications. In today's interconnected world, it will become increasingly important to have a basic understanding of computer networking and distributed computation yet these topics are rarely covered in K-12 curricula. Conversely, NetsBlox makes distributed programming accessible to beginner programmers using its simple yet powerful visual programming primitives, an intuitive user interface and a sophisticated cloud-based infrastructure. Moreover, the tool enables students to work together on the same project from different computers similarly to how Google Docs operate. This feature enables online collaboration and facilitates new ways to teach and learn programming. By allowing students to create multi-player games, NetsBlox provides increased motivation and is likely to prove engaging to students. By providing access to online public domain data sources, such as weather, earthquake, and air pollution data, in a unified manner, students will be able to create interesting science projects in a number of STEM fields promoting interdisciplinary learning. This technology demonstration will introduce the environment and demonstrate its utility in creating multi-player games, such as Battleship and Tic Tac Toe, as well as highlight two client-server applications that display weather and historical earthquake data, respectively, on top of an interactive Google Maps background. Audience members will be asked to participate in a massively parallel volunteer computing application doing prime factorization of large numbers. The open source public domain NetsBlox environment is accessible at http://netsblox.org.","PeriodicalId":344382,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123002132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 8

Assessing Children's Understanding of the Work of Computer Scientists: The Draw-a-Computer-Scientist Test 评估儿童对计算机科学家工作的理解:画一个计算机科学家测试

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education Pub Date : 2017-03-08 DOI: 10.1145/3017680.3017769

A. Hansen, Hilary A. Dwyer, Ashley Iveland, Mia Talesfore, Lacy Wright, Danielle B. Harlow, Diana Franklin

{"title":"Assessing Children's Understanding of the Work of Computer Scientists: The Draw-a-Computer-Scientist Test","authors":"A. Hansen, Hilary A. Dwyer, Ashley Iveland, Mia Talesfore, Lacy Wright, Danielle B. Harlow, Diana Franklin","doi":"10.1145/3017680.3017769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3017680.3017769","url":null,"abstract":"We developed the Draw-A-Computer-Scientist-Test (DACST) to better understand elementary school students' conceptions of computer scientists and the nature of their work. By understanding how young children perceive computer scientists, we can broaden their ideas about the activities and images of computer scientists. We administered the DACST to 87 fourth-grade students (ages 8-9) as a pre- and post-assessment to a computer science curriculum. All students attended the same school and were taught by the same female teacher. Before the curriculum, we found that students most often drew male computer scientists working alone, and featured actions that were connected to technology in general (e.g., typing, printing), but not specific to computer science. After the curriculum, more female students drew female computer scientists than before, and the featured actions were more specific to computer science (e.g., programming a game). We also share insights about the classroom-learning environment that may have contributed to changes in students' understanding of computer scientists and their work.","PeriodicalId":344382,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128501955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 39