SIGCSE Report

Sue FitzgeraldACM Education Council

September 2014

SIGCSE Board

• Susan Rodger, Chair• Paul Tymann, Vice-Chair• Amber Settle, Treasurer• Judy Sheard, Secretary• Tiffany Barnes, At Large• Alison Clear, At Large• Sue Fitzgerald, At Large• Renee McCauley, Immediate Past Chair

Technical SymposiumYear Location Special Features

2014 Atlanta, GA • 1,285 attendees• In cooperation with and co-

located with first offering of Learning @ Scale conference

• New Educators Workshop• 33 three-hour workshops • 6 pre-Symposium events

2015 Kansas City, MO • New Chairs Workshop

2016 Memphis, TN • New Educators Workshop

ITiCSELocation Special Features

2013 University of Kent in Canterbury, United Kingdom

• 182 attendees

2014 Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden

• 176 attendees • 3 working groups

2015 Vilnius University in Vilnius, Lithuania

2016 San Pablo Catholic University in Arequipa, Peru

• First time in South America

ICERLocation Special Features

2013 University of California, San Diego in San Diego, CA

• 78 attendees• Doctoral Consortium (12

students)

2014 University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland

• 79 attendees• Doctoral Consortium (18

students)• Critical Research Review (12

participants)2015 University of Nebraska

at Omaha in Omaha, NE• Work in Progress Workshop

2016 Melbourne, Australia

2013 Best PapersConference Paper Authors

ICER 2013 In-Game Assessments Increase Novice Programmers' Engagement and Level Completion Speed

Michael Lee, Andrew Ko and Irwin Kwan

ICER 2013 Exploring Hypotheses about Media Computation

Mark Guzdial

ITiCSE 2013 Voice Interactive Learning: A Framework and Evaluation

M. del Puerto Paule-Ruiz, Victor M. Álvarez-García & Juan-Ramon Pérez-Pérez, Moisés Riestra-González

SIGCSE 2013

Retaining Nearly One-Third More Majors with a Trio of Instructional Best Practices in CS1

Leo Porter and Beth Simon

2014 Best PapersConference Paper Authors

ICER 2014 Computer Programs, Dialogicality, and Intentionality

Josh Tenenberg and Yifat Ben-David Kolikant

ICER 2014 Predicting Student Success Using Fine Grain Clicker Data

Leo Porter, Daniel Zingaro, and Raymond Lister

SIGCSE 2014

Student Projects Are Not Throwaways: Teaching Practical Software Maintenance in a Software Engineering Course

Claudia Szabo

ITiCSE 2014 Failure Rates in Introductory Programming Revisited

Christopher Watson and Frederick W.B. Li

2014 Award Winners

• Robert Panoff, Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education

• Andrea Lawrence, Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community

Special Projects Grants

Fiscal Year Amount Spent Proposals Received

Proposals Funded

FY 2012 $12,500 25 4

FY 2013 $31,360 35 7

FY 2014 $14,300 36 3

Speakers Fund ProgramFiscal Year # Speakers

FundedAmount

FY13 3 $2090FY14 2 $1935*FY15 2 **

*Through March ** Not yet expended

Travel Grants

• Conceived and initially funded by Henry Walker

• For faculty who have never attended the SIGCSE Technical Symposium

• First awards were made in 2014 • $500 each• Target: 5 awards annually

Healthy Membership

• FY12 2557• FY13 2571• FY14 2567• Small increase in dues in FY14 ($25)• Paper vs. electronic membership ($45)

Member Benefits

• ACM Inroads (4 issues, magazine for the computing education community)

• Proceedings of Technical Symposium, ITiCSE and ICER • SIGCSE Electronic Bulletin (4 issues) • Reduced registration rates for Technical Symposium,

ITiCSE and ICER • Free access to SIGCSE publication archives through

the ACM Portal • SIGCSE-ANNOUNCE and SIGCSE-MEMBERS mailing

lists

Current Initiatives• International expansion

– ITiCSE to be held in South America in 2016– Strong Australasian participation in ICER– SIGCSE Board - 2 out of 8 board members now non-US– Investigating how to cooperate in India and China

• Building relationships and expanding research– Exploring mutual activities with IEEE Education Society– Exploring conference opportunities with ACM Europe and Informatics

Europe– Expanded Special Projects funding

• Expanding volunteer pool– Starting a volunteer recruitment campaign– Moving to 3-year cycles for volunteer positions