The submission deadline has passed.
The International Computing Education Research (ICER) Workshop aims at gathering high-quality contributions to the computing education research discipline. Papers for the ICER workshop will be peer-reviewed and should, as appropriate, display:
We welcome papers whose central research questions address:
Learning: Computing education is naturally concerned with how students make sense of computational processes and devices in formal education, including primary, secondary, and post-secondary institutions. Computing education also goes beyond formal education. What do adults understand about computation, and how do they come to that understanding? What do children understand about computation given their limited conceptions of time, process, and agency, and how does that affect their later formal learning about computation?Instruction: Learning may be enhanced or impeded by instruction. Educators bring instructional methods, formal or informal theories, and values to specific learning environments and situations. As researchers we explore the educators' role in the learning process?whether that educator is a teacher, near-peer, remote resource or the computer itself.
Computing Education Research employs methodologies from many fields, amongst them psychology, education, anthropology and statistics. As a consequence, research is frequently characterised by a diversity of methodological approaches; these may be applied directly, or may be combined and modified to suit the particular cross-disciplinary questions that we ask.
These categories are not intended to limit the areas of investigation of interest to this workshop, but to offer a "broad brush" characterization of topics. We welcome papers that extend, improve and refine work in these, and associated, areas.
Papers should be no more than 12 pages long, following the ACM SIGCSE formatting guidelines (http://www.ithaca.edu/sigcse2005/format.html).
The deadline for paper submission was 15 May 2006.