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Editorial: Computational Tools for Computing Education

Published: 01 November 2011 Publication History

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The goal of this editorial is to both encourage authors to continue to submit articles describing computational tools for computing education to TOCE, and to make explicit our expectations as the editors of TOCE for what makes a good “tools” article. We elaborate three key criteria, and provide examples from previous TOCE papers that satisfy these criteria: 1) establish that the tool is related essentially to computing education, 2) make explicit claims about the impact of the tool on learning, and 3) evidence these claims through actual use.

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cover image ACM Transactions on Computing Education
ACM Transactions on Computing Education  Volume 11, Issue 4
November 2011
96 pages
EISSN:1946-6226
DOI:10.1145/2048931
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Published: 01 November 2011
Accepted: 01 August 2011
Received: 01 August 2011
Published in TOCE Volume 11, Issue 4

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