The poster presents Bebras informatics tasks based on assembling a program from blocks. These tasks were created in templates based on Papert's microworlds and they familiarize pupils with classical problems used in CS education. In these microworlds, ...

Large language models (LLMs) can be used to answer student questions on course discussion boards, but there is a risk of LLMs answering questions they are unable to address. We propose and evaluate an LLM-based system that classifies student questions ...

Debugging is an important aspect of programming. Most programming languages have some features and tools to facilitate debugging. As the debugging process is also frustrating, it requires good scaffolding, in which a debugger can be a useful tool [3]. ...

It is challenging to retain computing students through their first stage of undergraduate education. Attrition is high, with many transferring courses or dropping out. This poster explores preliminary findings from an action research project improving ...

Novice programmers struggle with writing code from scratch. One possible way to help them is by using an equivalent Parsons problem on demand, where learners place mixed-up code blocks in the correct order. In a classroom study with 89 undergraduate ...

There is a growing need for 21st-century workers to be digitally literate and to possess computational thinking and collaborative problem-solving skills. Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) focused on computational thinking can guide ...

The revised Czech national computing curriculum for grades 6-9 entails the topic of how digital devices work. Up to date materials for teaching this topic are lacking in the Czech context. Our goal is to create such materials. As a first step, we mapped ...

By 2030 greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced by at least 55%. Despite hardware becoming more energy-efficient (Koomey's law), the ever-increasing reliance on computer technology has increased the energy usage due to ICT significantly.

In software ...

With the increasing demand for programming skills comes a trend towards more online programming courses and assessments. While this allows educators to teach larger groups of students, it also opens the door to dishonest student behaviour, such as ...

Dodona (dodona.ugent.be) is an intelligent tutoring system for learning computer programming, statistics and data science. It bridges the gap between assessment and learning by providing real-time data and feedback to help students learn better, teachers ...

This panel convenes four educators, each from different institutions and each with experience managing group projects. Their expertise spans topics including: peer assessment and peer evaluation; entrepreneurship; transdisciplinarity; ...

Blended learning is the combination of in-person teaching and online activities. For example, combining face-to-face lectures/tutorials with online videos and assessments. With the adoption of non-traditional, not fully on-campus courses, such as degree ...

This tip, technique, and courseware proposal is presenting the details the design of a problem solving competition. This is a competition concept that can be used in place of or to prepare for a traditional hackathon. This style of competition is more ...

Introductory courses usually only teach a small subset of a programming language and its library, in order to focus on the general concepts rather than overwhelm students with the syntactic, semantic and API minutiae of a particular language.

This paper ...

The Flemish Government has imposed a new and challenging set of learning objectives for secondary education. An important part comprises Computational Thinking for 3rd and 4th year students, and Computer Science for students in their 5th and 6th year. ...

Every student deserves to have a highly qualified teacher. Increasing certified Computer Science (CS) teacher capacity is essential for our region to provide enough CS teachers to sustain the current rate of CS growth. My dissertation focuses on ...

This PhD research explores the problem of building an effective ITS-like system for providing real-time formative feedback for programming assignments given to college/university students. Such system would maximize learning outcomes while minimizing the ...

This dissertation research explores the potential of using learning analytics to improve programming education. The research goals include replicating previous research through studying heterogeneous groups of students at upper secondary schools over ...

With an ever increasing number of computing initiatives trying to engage and motivate children of all ages, we need to ask ourselves what these initiatives achieve and deliver. We therefore intend to investigate whether participation in a workshop ...