Recent Publications And Presentations
ACM/IEEE-CS Interim Revision Task Force (Andrew McGettrick and Renee McCauley, co-chairs), Computer Science Curriculum 2008: An Interim Revision of CS 2001, December 2008, available February 2009.
Lillian Cassel, Michael Casperson, Gordon Davies, Renée McCauley, Andrew McGettrick, Art Pyster. Curriculum Update from the ACM Education Board: CS2008 and a Report on Masters Degrees, Special Session Abstract, in Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2008), March 12–15, 2008, Portland, OR, pp 530-531.
Beth Simon, Sue Fitzgerald, Renée McCauley, Susan Haller, John Hamer, Brian Hanks, Michael Helmick, Jan Erik Moström, Judy Sheard, Lynda Thomas. Debugging assistance for novices: A video repository, an ITiCSE 2007 Working Group Report, in inroads: The SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 39, Number 4, December 2007.
Laurie Murphy, Renée McCauley, Suzanne Westbrook, Briana Morrison, Brad Richards, Timothy Fossum. Women catch up: Gender differences in learning programming concepts, in Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2006), March 1 – 4, 2006, Houston, TX, pp 17-21. Note: this article was featured in the Winter 2007 issue of the Annals of Research in Engineering Education, Volume 3, No. 1, www.areeonline.org.
Laurie Murphy, Renée McCauley, Suzanne Westbrook, Timothy Fossum, Susan Haller, Briana Morrison, Brad Richards, Kathryn Sanders, Carol Zander and Ruth Anderson. A multi-institutional investigation of computer science seniors’ knowledge of programming concepts, in Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2005, pp 510-514.
Renée McCauley, Laurie Murphy, Suzanne Westbrook, Susan Haller, Carol Zander, Timothy Fossum, Kathryn Sanders, Briana Morrison, Brad Richards, Ruth Anderson. What do successful computer science students know? An integrative analysis using card-sort measures and content analysis to evaluate graduating students’ knowledge of programming concepts, Expert Systems, 22(3):147-159, 2005.
Kathryn Sanders, Sally Fincher, Dennis Bouvier, Gary Lewandowski, Briana Morrison, Laurie Murphy, Marion Petre, B. Richards, Josh Tenenberg, Lynda Thomas, Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Sue Fitzgerald, Alicia Gutschow. Susan Haller, Raymond Lister, Renée McCauley, John McTaggart, Christine Prasad, Terry Scott, Dermott Shinners-Kennedy, Suzanne Westbrook, Carol Zander. What are they thinking?: A multi-institutional study of novice programmers' understanding of computer science concepts using card-sort data.” Expert Systems, 22(3):121-128, 2005.