Schedule for ICER 2009, Monday, August 10

Clark Kerr Conference Center
2601 Warring, Berkeley, CA
Building 14

8-8:30am
  Continental breakfast, registration
8:30-8:40am
  Mike Clancy: Welcome
8:40-9:40am
  Marcia Linn (keynote speaker): "Learning to Teach Computer Programming"
9:40-10:10am
  break
10:10-10:50am
  Neomi Liberman, Yifat Ben-David Kolikant and Catriel Beeri, "In-Service Teachers Learning of a New Paradigm: A Case Study"
10:50-11:30am
  John Hamer, Helen Purchase, Andrew Luxton-Reilly and Paul Denny, "Quality of Peer Assessment in CS 1"
11:30am-1pm
  lunch
1-1:40pm
  Stephen Edwards, Jason Snyder, Manuel Perez-Quinones, Anthony Allevato, Dongkwan Kim and Betsy Tretola, "Comparing Effective and Ineffective Behaviors of Student Programmers"
1:40-2:20pm
  Leslie Schwartzman, "On the Nature of Student Defensiveness: Theory and Feedback from a Software Design Course"
2:20-2:50pm
  break
2:50-3:30pm
  Janice Miller, "Computer Science Innovation in Thailand"
3:30-4:30pm
  discussion: "The Future of ICER"
4:30-6:30pm
  break
6:30-8:30pm
  dinner at Hotel Shattuck Plaza

Schedule for Tuesday, August 11

8-8:30am
  Continental breakfast
8:30-9:10am
  Carsten Schulte and Albrecht Ehlert, "Empirical Comparison of Objects-First and Objects-Later"
9:10-9:50am
  Robert McCartney, Dennis Bouvier, Tzu-Yi Chen, Gary Lewandowski, Kate Sanders, Beth Simon and Tammy VanDeGrift, "Commonsense Computing (episode 5): Algorithm Efficiency and Balloon Testing"
9:50-10:20am
  break
10:20-11am
  Anne Venables, Grace Tan and Raymond Lister, "A Closer Look at Tracing, Explaining, and Code Writing Skills in the Novice Programmer"
11-11:40am
  Judy Sheard, Simon, Margaret Hamilton and Jan Lonnberg, "Analysis of Research into the Teaching and Learning of Programming"
11:40am-1pm
  lunch
1-1:40pm
  Ma. Mercedes Rodrigo and Ryan Shaun Baker, "Coarse-Grained Detection of Student Frustration in an Introductory Programming Course"
1:40-2:20pm
  Matthew Jadud and Poul Henricksen, "Flexible, Reusable Tools for Studying Novice Programmers"
2:20-2:40pm
  break
2:40-3:20pm
  Beth Simon, Brian Hanks, Renee McCauley, Briana Morrison, Laurie Murphy and Carol Zander, "For Me, Programming Is ..."
3:20-4pm
  Carol Zander, Jonas Boustedt, Jan Erik Mostrom, Robert McCartney, Kate Sanders and Lynda Thomas, "Student Transformations: Are They Computer Scientists Yet?"
4-4:30pm
  evaluation and wrapup