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Schedule

590ED meets on Thursdays at 11:30 in MGH 253. For now, each date has an assigned organizer / contact person. Topics are yet to be chosen and scheduled.

October 3 - Planning for the quarter
October 10 - CANCELLED
October 17 - Vygotsky on ZoPeDs (Steve)
October 24 - CSE, the Journal, "A Study of Factors Promoting Success in Computer Science Including Gender Differences", Wilson (Kate & Ken)
October 31 - "On Becoming Junior Software Designers: Students' Reflections on their Participation and Development in Collaborative Software Design Activities" by Y. Kafai and M.Roberts. (Tammy)
November 7 - Tutoring Answer Explanation Fosters Learning with Understanding by V. Aleven, et al. (Kate)
November 14 - minority students in college math/science: "Thin Ice: 'Stereotype Threat' and Black College Students" (Steele, 1999), "Studying Students Studying Calculus: A Look at the Lives of Minority Mathematics Students in College" (Treisman, 1992); (Ken, Vibha)
November 21 - State of the Art in K-12 Science education (Vibha)
November 28 - CANCELLED Thanksgiving. Eat turkey or your substitute.
December 5 - CSCW (tentative) (CSCL deadline on 12/7)
December 12 - CHI short papers on ed. (tentative)

Topics

Topics brainstormed in class:

CSCW report (AJ)
CHI education-related short papers
new journals, conferences (JRTE)
CSEJ
constructivism intro (theory background, applying)
Vygotsky on ZoPeDs
Learning, levels of cognition; How People Learn
Cindy and Jennifer

The topics listed below are mostly tentative and are in no particular order. Possible questions to theme this quarter include (1) How do I (or other researchers in their published work) get from research question to methods?, (2) What commonalities, methodological or otherwise, are there in the work published by the "big names" in CS ed. and ed. tech.? Send your suggestions to yasuhara@cs.

Erickson, Frederick. (1986). "Qualitative methods in research on teaching." Pp. 119-161 in Wittrock, Merlin C. (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Teaching, 3rd Ed. New York: Macmillan.
group work, forming groups (contact: Steve)
research questions as context for discussion methods, research process with Jennifer & Cindy
data analysis methods
read and critique research published in SIGCSE, ITiCSE, FIE, etc. (see also: our group's list of conferences and journals)
work by researchers in the UW community
- Reed Stephens
- Philip Bell
- Jennifer Turns
- Cindy Atman (Director, CELT)
work by other researchers
- Shirley Booth, Chalmers University of Technology
- Barbara Boucher Owens, Southwestern U. Georgetown
- Mark Guzdial, Georgia Tech
- Vicki Almstrum, UT Austin
- Marian Petre, Open University
- Anders Berglund, Uppsala University
- Alan David Fekete, University of Sydney
- Sally Fincher, University of Kent
- Michael Clancy, UCB
- Roy Pea, Director, Center for Technology in Learning, SRI International

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