Koli Calling Research Articles

Values and Objectives in Computing Education Research

What is Computing Education Research (CER), why are we doing this type of research, and what should the community achieve? As associate editors to this special edition we provide our perspectives and discuss how they have influenced the evolution of the Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research over the last nine years. The two articles in the special issue have been selected from among the twenty eight conference contributions for their originality and contribution to CER in the areas the Koli Calling Conference aims to emphasize. We hope that you find them inspiring reading.

Informatics in Education and Koli Calling: a Comparative Analysis

The journal Informatics in Education and the conference Koli Calling are compared, starting with Simon's system for the classification of computing education papers and going on to conduct a brief bibliometric analysis of the authors of papers in both publications, including their repeat rates and the countries from which they come. The analysis finds that despite their different natures, the Lithuanian journal and the Finnish conference are highly comparable in many respects. The broad conclusion is that the two publications work well together - but it would be good to see some Lithuanian authors contributing papers to Koli Calling.