Education and Technology research seminar: 2005 Winter
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CSE 591ED Seminar Overview
As of 2005 Winter, this is the new wiki for the Education & Technology group's research reading seminar, CSE 591ED. Goals include sampling current research in CS education and educational technology, learning research methods in these areas, and discussing local research efforts.
Attendees should subscribe to the seminar mailing list. For more infomation, including list archives, see the mailing list's information page.
Home pages for past offerings are linked on the department's main page for CSE 591ED. Contact Richard Anderson for more information.
For convenient linking to this page, the URL www.cs.washington.edu/591ed/ is set up to automatically forward to this page. From computers on campus, www.cs/591ed/ even works!
2005 Winter Offering
We meet Wednesdays from 10:30 to 11:00 am in CSE 503, with the option of extending discussion beyond the half hour.
Education & Technology group members: Our weekly group meeting immediately precedes the seminar, from 10:00 to 10:30.
Calendar
date | topic | resources | discussion leader |
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03 Jan | planning | topic and reading list below last quarter's candidate reading list |
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12 Jan | Ken's Punishment | H.G. Taylor and L.C. Mounfield. Exploration of the relationship between prior computing experience and gender on success in college computer science. J. Educational Computing Research, 11(4), 1994. | Ken | |
19 Jan | Kolb and Zull! | "Learning Exercises for the Rest of Your Brain," by Roger DeBry (CCSC Rocky Mountain 2004) | Vibha | |
26 Jan | Kolb and Learning Styles | "McCarthy's 4MAT System" in Marching to Different Drummers by Pat Burke Guild and Stephen Garger | Kate | |
02 Feb | Initiative and Learning | Mark G. Core, Johanna D. Moore, and Claus Zinn. The Role of Initiative in Tutorial Dialogue Tenth Conference of the EACL, 2003 | Kate | |
09 Feb | SIGCSE preview | L.J. Barker, K. Garvin-Doxas, and E. Roberts. What Can Computer Science Learn from a Fine Arts Approach to Teaching. To appear, SIGCSE 2005. | Ken | |
16 Feb | qualitative research | selections from report on NSF Workshop on Scientific Foundations of Qualitative Research Monica: General Guidance, Recommendations for Designing, Evaluating, Strengthening", "Advancing the Scientific Basis of Qual. Research" Ken: "Improving...proposal evaluation", "Problems of analysis" Tammy: "Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Research", "A Few Thoughts on Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods" |
everybody | |
23 Feb | cancelled | SIGCSE 2005 in St. Louis, MO | ||
02 Mar | SIGCSE debrief | Please show up at 10:00 am! | ||
09 Mar | defensive climate | Barker et al. Defensive climate in the computer science classroom. SIGCSE 2002. Garvin-Doxas & Barker. Creating learning environments that support interaction. SIGCSE 2003. (optional) Barker & Garvin-Doxas. Making visible the behaviors that influence learning environment: A qualitative exploration of computer science classrooms. To appear in Computer Science Education. (optional; mail Ken for copy) |
Candidate Topics and Readings
As usual, please feel free to add your ideas here:
- catching up with recent conferences like FIE 2004, ITiCSE 2004
- catching up with journals like the Dec 2004 issue of Computer Science Education and ASEE's Journal of Engineering Education
- R. Debry, 2004. Learning Exercises for the Rest of Your Brain. Proceedings of the Mideast and Rocky Mountain Regional CCSC Conferences. (Vibha)
- I. Benest, J. Carter, and J. Chandler. Identifying the Dominant Personality and Attitudinal Traits in Computer Science Students. Proceedings of ICEE, 2003. (Tammy)