Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research

Abstract

We welcome you to the thirteenth annual International Computing Education Research Conference, ICER 2017, sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE). Tacoma, Washington, USA is the host city for this year's conference, with sessions taking place on the downtown campus of the University of Washington Tacoma. ICER stands as the premier ACM forum for dissemination and discussion of the latest findings in computing education research across the globe. ICER research papers represent significant, rigorous contributions to the field. One hundred eight research papers were submitted, with twenty-nine papers accepted for publication (a 27% acceptance rate) in the conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. All papers were double-blind peer reviewed by three members of the review committee. In addition, each paper received a meta-review by a member of the program committee, with the two Program Co-Chairs making final acceptance decisions. In addition to the research paper presentations, ICER includes Lightning Talk and Poster sessions as a way for ICER attendees to present early results, gain feedback from conference attendees, find collaborators on a topic, and/or spark discussion among conference participants. The conference also serves a vital mentoring and advising role for upcoming discipline-based computing education researchers through the Doctoral Consortium. The Work in Progress workshop is a dedicated one-day workshop for ICER attendees to provide and receive friendly, constructive feedback on research during formative stages of development. Associated co-located workshops with external sponsorship at ICER 2017 include Social Theory for Computer Science Education, Leveraging Programming and Social Analytics to Improve Computing Education, and Research on Learning about Machine Learning. We are honored to welcome Wolff-Michael Roth, the Lansdowne Professor of Applied Cognitive Science in the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada to present the ICER 2017 keynote address. For the past 30 years, he has been investigating knowing and learning across the lifespan in formal educational, workplace, and leisure settings. His journal and book publications range across several disciplines and fields (natural sciences, research methodology, education, psychology, social studies of science), drawing on a wide spectrum of research methods and theories. Professor Roth's keynote, Minding One's Business, examines where the mind is "located" when people do what they characteristically do. He draws on several empirical examples to exhibit how, when, and where to look to find cognition that is not reduced to the physical body (including brain physiology) or to some nonphysical mind and that is not reduced to the individual or social.