ITiCSE Top 5 in 25 Award Finalists

As a celebration of 25 fantastic years of ITiCSE, this award is recognizing the top five regular conference papers and the top five working group reports. Informed by community input, a selection committee will determine the winners from these finalists. Please use this form to provide your feedback on the finalists by Sunday March 29.

Finalists for Regular Paper Category

• 1996: Active Learning and Its Use in Computer Science, Jeffrey J. McConnell

• 2001: The Effect of Student Attributes on Success in Programming, Pat Byrne, Gerry Lyons

• 2003: A media computation course for non-majors, M. Guzdial

• 2004: Self-efficacy and mental models in learning to program, V. Ramalingam, D. LaBelle, S. Wiedenbeck

• 2005: A study of the difficulties of novice programmers, E. Lahtinen, K. Ala-Mutka, H-M. Järvinen

• 2006: Not seeing the forest for the trees: novice programmers and the SOLO taxonomy, R. Lister, B. Simon, E. Thompson, J. Whalley, C. Prasad

• 2014: Failure rates in introductory programming revisited, C. Watson, F. Li

Finalists for Working Group Reports Category

• 2001: A multi-national, multi-institutional study of assessment of programming skills of first-year CS students, Michael McCracken, Vicki Almstrum, Danny Diaz, Mark Guzdial, Dianne Hagan, Yifat Ben-David Kolikant, Cary Laxer, Lynda Thomas, Ian Utting, Tadeusz Wilusz

• 2002: Exploring the role of visualization and engagement in computer science education, Thomas L. Naps, Guido Rößling, Vicki Almstrum, Wanda Dann, Rudolf Fleischer, Chris Hundhausen, Ari Korhonen, Lauri Malmi, Myles McNally, Susan Rodger, J. Ángel Velázquez-Iturbide

• 2004: A multi-national study of reading and tracing skills in novice programmers, Raymond Lister, Elizabeth S. Adams, Sue Fitzgerald, William Fone, John Hamer, Morten Lindholm, Robert McCartney, Jan Erik Moström, Kate Sanders, Otto Seppälä, Beth Simon, Lynda Thomas

• 2007: A survey of literature on the teaching of introductory programming, Arnold Pears, Stephen Seidman, Lauri Malmi, Linda Mannila, Elizabeth Adams, Jens Bennedsen, Marie Devlin, James Paterson

• 2007: The role of social networks in students’ learning experiences, Ilaria Liccardi, Asma Ounnas, Reena Pau, Elizabeth Massey, Päivi Kinnunen, Sarah Lewthwaite, Marie-Anne Midy, Chandan Sarkar

• 2008: Contributing student pedagogy, John Hamer, Quintin Cutts, Jana Jackova, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Robert McCartney, Helen Purchase, Charles Riedesel, Mara Saeli, Kate Sanders, Judithe Sheard

• 2014: Computational Thinking in K-9 Education, Linda Mannila, Valentina Dagiene, Barbara Demo, Natasa Grgurina, Claudio Mirolo, Lennart Rolandsson, Amber Settle

• 2015: Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics in Programming: Literature Review and Case Studies, Petri Ihantola, Arto Vihavainen, Alireza Ahadi, Matthew Butler, Jürgen Börstler, Stephen H. Edwards, Essi Isohanni, Ari Korhonen, Andrew Petersen, Kelly Rivers, Miguel Ángel Rubio, Judy Sheard, Bronius Skupas, Jaime Spacco, Claudia Szabo, Daniel Toll

• 2018: Introductory programming: a systematic literature review, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Simon, Ibrahim Albluwi, Brett A. Becker, Michail Giannakos, Amruth N. Kumar, Linda Ott, James Paterson, Michael James Scott, Judy Sheard, Claudia Szabo