NSF Workshop for STEM faculty on active learning with UP

Teaching

Winter 2007: CSE 8A and CSE8AL CSE 141 and CSE 141L Past courses: CSE8A and CSE8AL CSE3 CSE141 and CSE141L CSE599

Research Interests

Educational Technology ( Ubiquitous Presenter) Computer Science Education Research (especially multi-institutional research) Compilers, computer architecture, performance programming, scientific computing.

Publications

Commonsense Computing: Using student sorting abilities to improve instruction. Tzu-Yi Chen, Gary Lewandowski, Robert McCartney, Kate Sanders, Beth Simon TO APPEAR: In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium, March 2007. Exploring the Potential of Mobile Phones for Active Learning in the Classroom. David Lindquist, Tamara Denning, Michael Kelly, Roshni Malani, William G. Griswold, Beth Simon. TO APPEAR: In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium, March 2007. Lightweight Preliminary Peer Review: Does in-class peer review make sense? Tamara Denning, Michael Kelly, David Lindquist, Roshni Malani, William G. Griswold, Beth Simon TO APPEAR: In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium, March 2007. Commonsense Computing: What students know before we teach (Episode 1: Sorting) Beth Simon, Tzu-Yi Chen, Gary Lewandowski, Robert McCartney, Kate Sanders Second International Computing Education Research Workshop, September, 2006 Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Novice Programmers and the SOLO Taxonomy Raymond Lister, Beth Simon, Errol Thompson, Jacqueline Whalley, Christine Prasad 11th Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), 2006. Code Classification as a Learning and Assessment Exercise for Novice Programmers Errol Thompson, Jacqueline Whalley, Raymond Lister, Beth Simon 19th Annual Conference of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications, New Zealand, 2006. Classroom Presenter - A Classroom Interaction System for Active and Collaborative Learning Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Oliver Chung, K. M. Davis, Peter Davis, Craig Prince, Valentin Razmov and Beth Simon Workshop on the Impact of Pen Technologies in Education, March 2006. Multimodal Communication in the Classroom: What does it mean for us? Tamara Denning, William Griswold, Beth Simon and Michelle Wilkerson SIGCSE, February 2006. Relationship of Early Programming Language to Novice Generated Design. Tzu-Yi Chen, Alvaro Monge, Beth Simon. SIGCSE, February 2006. Use of Classroom Presenter in Engineering Courses Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Luke McDowell, Beth Simon Frontiers in Education, October 2005. Reducing Overheads for Acquiring Dynamic Traces Xiaofeng Gao, Michael Laurenzano, Beth Simon, Allan Snavely IEEE International Synposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC05), October 2005. Strategies that Students Use to Trace Code: An Analysis Based in Grounded Theory Sue Fitzgerald, Beth Simon, Lynda Thomas First International Computing Education Research Workshop, October 2005. ALITER: An Asynchronous Lightweight Instrumentation Tool for Event Recording Xiaofeng Gao, Beth Simon, Allan Snavely Workshop on Binary Instrumentation and Applications, September 2005. Low Cost Trace-driven Memory Simulation Using SimPoint Michael Laurenzano, Beth Simon, Allan Snavely, Meghan Gunn Workshop on Binary Instrumentation and Applications, September 2005. Do Students Recognize Ambiguity in Software Design? A Multinational, Multi-institutional Report Ken Blaha, Alvaro Monge, Dean Sanders, Beth Simon, Tammy VanDeGrift 27th International Conference on Software Engineering, May 2005. Students Designing Software: A Multi-National, Multi-Institutional Study Josh Tenenberg, Sally Fincher, Ken Blaha, Dennis Bouvier, Tzu-Yi Chen, Donald Chinn, Stephen Cooper, Anna Eckerdal, Hubert Johnson, Robert McCartney, Alvaro Monge, Jan Erik Mostrom, Marian Petre, Kris Powers, Mark Ratcliffe, Anthony Robins, Dean Sanders, Leslie Schwartzman, Beth Simon, Carol Stoker, Allison Elliot Tew, Tammy VanDeGrift In Informatics in Education, 4(1). 2005. 143-162. Full list of publications