Call for Papers
We invite you to submit a paper, report, or poster for the 12th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education (WiPSCE 2017) and join us in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in November 2017.
Research in primary and secondary computing education is a young field with strong ties to national educational systems. Nevertheless, its theories, methods, and results are internationally applicable and of interest to researchers and practitioners in the field. WiPSCE aims at improving the exchange of research and practice relevant to teaching and learning in primary and secondary computing education, teacher training, and related research.
Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Learning: attitudes, beliefs, motivation, misconceptions, learning difficulties, student engagement with educational technology (e.g., visualization), conceptualization of computing
- Teaching: teaching approaches, teaching methods, teaching with educational technology
- Content: curricular aspects, learning standards, tools, educational approaches, context relevant teaching, assessment
- Institutional aspects: establishing and enhancing computing education, professional development
Special Theme: Learning Teachers
This year we particularly welcome papers reporting on research on computer science teacher knowledge and skills. Such research may focus on, for example, teacher education, teachers' content knowledge (CT) and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), teachers' curricular beliefs, teachers' professional development, teachers' competences, and characteristics distinguishing successful teachers.
Submission Guidelines
Original submissions in all areas related to primary and secondary computing education are invited in the following categories:
- Full Paper (6-10 pages).
Full papers must be submitted in one of two categories:
- Empirical Research Paper: Unpublished, original, theoretically anchored research relevant to the topics WiPSCE. Empirical research papers are expected to be of high quality and present novel arguments, syntheses, results, methods or tools.
- Theoretical and Philosophical Research Paper: Unpublished, original, theoretically anchored research which includes dissemination and discussion of new ideas, theoretical analyses, or the proposition of an original theory relevant to the topics of the workshop.
- Work in Progress (3-4 pages).
Work in progress papers are expected to present unpublished, original work in progress related to empirical or theoretical research relevant to the topics of WiPSCE.
- Practical Report (4-6 pages).
Practical reports describe unpublished, original projects in the field of "primary and secondary computing education" with an emphasis on practical experiences, e.g. evaluating a teaching intervention or curricular initiative. Reports are required to have a solid theoretical basis and need to reflect on the findings in order to contribute to the theory. Therefore, practical reports should clearly identify the relevance and importance to computing education as well as their contribution to concepts and theories in the field.
- Demo/Poster Abstract (2 pages). Demo/Poster abstracts should present emerging ideas for future research, teaching practice, or tools.
Submission Format
Submissions are required to follow the standard ACM two-column format. The review process will be double-blind, so authors are requested not to include their names and affiliations when submitting and to cite their prior work appropriately.
It is mandatory to submit a PDF-file through the EasyChair-system. Please see this page for submission and notification deadlines.
When preparing the submission, please keep in mind the following ACM rules:
- ACM has developed a new webpage which contains the new proceedings template: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template/. Please use the sigconf option.
- When authors incorporate the code blocks generated by the ACM e-Rights system and by the CCS 2012 Author Support Tool in these the correct ACM Rights Statement and bibliographic strip automatically appear in the author’s paper along with the proper display of the CCS indexing terms chosen. (And a hidden block of XML encoding will also be incorporated in the source file for extraction use in the ACM Digital Library.)
Review Process and Publication
To ensure selection of high quality contributions, submissions for Full Papers are reviewed by at least three members of the international Program Committee. Short Paper submissions and Demo/Poster Abstracts are reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee.
The WiPSCE Program Committee takes pride in considering submissions thoroughly and providing constructive feedback.All accepted contributions will be available as electronic pre-proceedings prior to the workshop. The papers from the workshop will be indexed and available through the ACM Digital Library (approval pending).
At least one author must register and present accepted papers in order for the paper to be included in the workshop proceedings.
Workshop Format
WiPSCE is a single track workshop with keynotes, research and practice presentations, panels, and discussion sessions. The workshop language is English. The workshop is known for its moderate size and lively discussions.
Questions? Please contact Erik Barendsen (Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University).