Code in Context

Computer Science Education Research at the University of Utah

Publications


Journal Articles


Teaching Ethics in Computing: A Systematic Literature Review of ACM Computer Science Education Publications


Noelle Brown, Benjamin Xie, Ella Sarder, Casey Fiesler, Eliane S. Wiese

ACM Transactions on Computing Education, vol. 24(1), 2024, pp. 1-36


"It Must Include Rules": Middle School Students' Computational Thinking with Computer Models in Science


Eliane S. Wiese, Marcia C. Linn

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, vol. 28(2), 2021, pp. 1-41


Designing Grounded Feedback: Criteria for Using Linked Representations to Support Learning of Abstract Symbols


Eliane S. Wiese, Kenneth R. Koedinger

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, vol. 27, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2017, pp. 448--474


Adding Physical Objects to an Interactive Game Improves Learning and Enjoyment


Nesra Yannier, Scott E. Hudson, Eliane Stampfer Wiese, Kenneth R. Koedinger

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, vol. 23, 2016, pp. 1--31


Conference Proceedings


The Shortest Path to Ethics in AI: An Integrated Assignment Where Human Concerns Guide Technical Decisions


Noelle Brown, Koriann South, Eliane S. Wiese

ICER '22, Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research - Volume 1, pp. 344–355


Designing Ethically-Integrated Assignments: It’s Harder Than it Looks


Noelle Brown, Koriann South, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Eliane S. Wiese

ICER '23, Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research - Volume 1, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2023, pp. 177–190


Use of an Anti-Pattern in CS2: Sequential if Statements with Exclusive Conditions


Sara Nurollahian, Matthew Hooper, Adriana Salazar, Eliane Wiese

SIGCSE 2023, Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2023, pp. 542–548


Improving Assessment of Programming Pattern Knowledge through Code Editing and Revision


Sara Nurollahian, Anna N. Rafferty, Eliane Wiese

ICSE-SEET '23, Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training, IEEE Press, 2023, pp. 58–69


An LGBTQ-Inclusive Problem Set in Discrete Mathematics


Trysten Scott Richard, Eliane S. Wiese, Zvonimir Rakamarić

SIGCSE 2022, The 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2022


Readable vs. Writable Code: A Survey of Intermediate Students' Structure Choices


Eliane Wiese, Anna N. Rafferty, Jordan Pyper

SIGCSE 2022, Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education - Volume 1, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2022, pp. 321–327


Students' Misunderstanding of the Order of Evaluation in Conjoined Conditions


Eliane S. Wiese, Anna N. Rafferty, Garrett Moseke

International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC '21), 2021


Linking Code Readability, Structure, and Comprehension among Novices: It's Complicated


Eliane S. Wiese, Anna N. Rafferty, Armando Fox

ICSE-SEET '19, Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training, IEEE Press, 2019, pp. 84-94


Replicating Novices' Struggles with Coding Style


Eliane S. Wiese, Anna N. Rafferty, Daniel M. Kopta, Jacqulyn M. Anderson

ICPC '19, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Program Comprehension, IEEE Press, 2019, pp. 13-18


Eliciting Middle School Students' Ideas About Graphs Supports Their Learning from a Computer Model


Eliane S. Wiese, Anna N. Rafferty, Marcia C. Linn

G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, E. Davelaar, Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017, pp. 3522--3527


Teaching Students to Recognize and Implement Good Coding Style


Eliane S Wiese, Michael Yen, Antares Chen, Lucas A Santos, Armando Fox

Proceedings of the 4th ACM conference on Learning at Scale, ACM, Cambridge, MA, 2017, pp. 41--50


Benefits for Grounded Feedback over Correctness in a Fraction Addition Tutor


Eliane S. Wiese, Rony Patel, Kenneth R Koedinger

A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, J.C. Trueswell, Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX, 2016, pp. 954--959


Why Sense-Making through Magnitude May Be Harder for Fractions than for Whole Numbers


Eliane S. Wiese, Rony Patel, Kenneth R. Koedinger

D. C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C.D. Jennings, P. P. Maglio, Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016, pp. 1229--1234


Transitivity is Not Obvious: Probing Prerequisites for Learning


Eliane S. Wiese, Rony Patel, Jennifer K Olsen, Kenneth R Koedinger

D. C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C.D. Jennings, P. P. Maglio, Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015, pp. 2655--2660


Investigating Scaffolds for Sense Making in Fraction Addition and Comparison


Eliane S. Wiese, Kenneth R Koedinger

P Bello, M Guarini, M McShane, B Scassellati, Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX, 2014


General and Efficient Cognitive Model Discovery Using a Simulated Student


Nan Li, Eliane Stampfer, William Cohen, Kenneth Koedinger

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013, pp. 817--822


When seeing isn't believing: Influences of prior conceptions and misconceptions


Eliane Stampfer, Kenneth R. Koedinger

M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, I. Wachsmuth, Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany, 2013, pp. 1384--1389


Workshop Papers


Students’ Self-Evaluations of Contextual Inquiry Techniques


Noelle Brown, Nidhi Patel, Xavier Davis, Eliane S. Wiese

EduCHI '23, Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on HCI Education, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2023, pp. 96–100


Building “Design Empathy” for People with Disabilities: an Unsolved Challenge in HCI Education


Tamanna Motahar, Noelle Brown, Eliane Stampfer Wiese, Jason Wiese

EduCHI '23, Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on HCI Education, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2023, pp. 68–71


Conference Presentations


Probing Middle-School Students' Understanding of Computer Models


Eliane Stampfer Wiese, Hannah Gogel, Libby F Gerard, Jonathan M Vitale, Marcia C Linn

presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX, 2017


Grounded Feedback in a Fraction Addition Tutor


Eliane S. Wiese, Kenneth R. Koedinger

Presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA)., Chicago, IL., 2015


How useful are fraction bars for understanding fraction equivalence and addition? A difficulty factors assessment with 5th, 6th, and 7th graders


Eliane Stampfer Wiese, Kenneth R. Koedinger

Presented at the Spring 2014 meeting of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE), 2014