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Summer Quarter Schedule:

Usually held on Tuesdays at 10am, presumably in 322 if the presenter remembers to reserve it.

Aug 1 (special, THURSDAY meeting, in Sieg 322)
iTiCSE - Tammy - overview, hot topics, key papers.
Aug 6 (ken gone) - Bootstrapping Workshop
Aug 13 (Ken gone) - Vibha - teleconsulting (ask Karim)
Aug 20 (ruth, Steve gone) - Ken or AJ - "Gender and Programming Achievement in a CSCL Environment", Amy Bruckman
Aug 27 (ruth, steve, Vibha gone (tammy?)) - cancelled
Sept 3 (ruth at UVA, vibha gone) - Kate - tutoring systems - Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Propositional Logic Tutor
Sept 10 (ruth at UVA) - Steve - Foundations of CSCL - Contributions to a Theoretical Framework for CSCL
Sept 17 (ruth at UVA, vibha gone) - The effect of multiple input devices on collaboration and gender issues (Abnett, Stanton, Neale, O'Malley; EuroCSCL 2001)
Sept 24 (ruth at UVA) - cancelled (too busy w/ new grad orientation)

Schedule

590ED meets on Tuesdays at 10:30 in Loew 218. For now, each date has an assigned organizer / contact person. Topics are yet to be chosen and scheduled.

09 Apr, Justin A social constructivist approach to computer-mediated instruction and if you feel like it Beyond Adoption to Invention: Teacher-Created Collaborative Activities in Higher Education
16 Apr, Steve
23 Apr, Chris
Mats Daniels and Anders Berglund. "Building a Rigorous Research Agenda into Changes to Teaching." ACSE 1998.
30 Apr, Philip Bell. Reading for this session will be distributed on 09 Apr.
diSessa, A. A. Local Sciences: Viewing the design of human-computer systems as cognitive science. Designing Interaction: Psychology at the Human-Computer Interface. 1991
07 May, Evaluating animations as student aids in learning algorithms by Byrne et al and Rethinking the evaluation of algorithm animations as learning aids: an observational study by Kehoe et al. (Nick)
14 May, Larry Arnstein, LabScape (Steve)
21 May, selections from Erickson paper listed below (Ken & Vibha)
28 May, ???
04 Jun, Jennifer Turns & Cindy Atman (Lori)

Topics

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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