SIGCSE 2020 Online


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SIGCSE 2020 Chairs Welcome!

Welcome to SIGCSE 2020 – the online version! While we couldn’t meet in person this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are pleased to bring our community together around the awesome papers, submissions, presentations, and materials that our global colleagues prepared for you. We hope that as we move into the summer months that this online portal of SIGCSE 2020 materials will provide the inspiration, resources, and support that you have come to expect from the SIGCSE Technical Symposium.

We invite you to engage online, through Twitter (use #sigcse2020online), Facebook, or Whova!

We wish you all the best and look forward to gathering together in person for SIGCSE 2021 in Toronto, Canada!

SIGCSE 2020 Chairs after the conference was canceled

SIGCSE 2020 Supporters

Thank you to our SIGCSE 2020 Supporters for making the annual Technical Symposium possible!

Several supporters provided content from their planned sessions as part of SIGCSE 2020 Online. Their sessions can be found on the Supporters Page.

Platinum Supporters

GitHub Education
GitHub Education
Google
Google
Intel
Intel
Microsoft
Microsoft

Gold Supporters

Gradescope by Turnitin
Gradescope by Turnitin
Codio
Codio
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
Rephactor
Rephactor
Turing's Craft
Turing's Craft
zyBooks
zyBooks

Silver Supporters

ABET
ABET
AWS Educate
AWS Educate
IBM
IBM

Bronze Supporters

AnitaB.org
AnitaB.org

SIGCSE 2020 Submission and Acceptance Statistics

SIGCSE 2020 broke submission records with over 1109 submissions! We can’t thank our community enough for their hard work in submitting and reviewing!

The SIGCSE Symposium promotes high-quality scholarship and community engagement around computer science education. We continued the practice of reviewer discussions, an expanded associate program committee, and three paper submissions tracks, recognizing the differences in scope and review criteria between (1) CS education research, (2) experience reports and tools, and (3) curriculum initiatives. Over 850 reviewers provided each Paper with at least 3 reviews; and all other submissions with at least 2 reviews. Reviewers, along with 75 Associate Program Chairs and 14 Track Chairs, discussed submissions to come to a consensus. Program Chairs made final selections based on recommendations, importance, novelty, and timeliness.

Track # Submitted # Accepted Acceptance Rate
Papers (CS Education Research, Experience Reports and Tools, Curriculum Initiatives) 544 171 31%
Panels 54 26 48%
Special Sessions 33 12 36%
Workshops 64 30 47%
ACM Student Research Competition 44 26 59%
Birds of a Feather 85 30 35%
Demos 30 10 33%
Lightning Talks 41 20 49%
Nifty Assignments 30 6 20%
Posters 184 115 63%

Best Papers

This year the Program Chairs selected three best papers from each of the paper tracks for their accomplishment of high quality, exemplifying the expectations of the track, novelty and broad appeal to reviewers. All best papers received at least one nomination from reviewers, high ratings, and excellent comments from reviewers. The top three papers in each track are shown below and highlighted throughout the printed program.

CS Education Research Best Papers

1st Best Paper: Competitive Enrollment Policies in Computing Departments Negatively Predict First-Year Students’ Sense of Belonging, Self-Efficacy, and Perception of Department

An Nguyen, Harvey Mudd College; Colleen M. Lewis, Harvey Mudd College

2nd Best Paper: Dual-Modality Instruction and Learning: A Case Study in CS1

Jeremiah Blanchard, University of Florida; Christina Gardner-McCune, University of Florida; Lisa Anthony, University of Florida

3rd Best Paper: What Are Cybersecurity Education Papers About? A Systematic Literature Review of SIGCSE and ITiCSE Conferences

Valdemar Švábenský, Masaryk University; Jan Vykopal, Masaryk University; Pavel Čeleda, Masaryk University

Experience Reports and Tools

1st Best Paper: Applying NCWIT Protocol to Broaden Participation in Computing: A Case Study of CS@Mines

Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines; Christine Liebe, Colorado School of Mines; Michelle Slattery, Peak Research, NCWIT ES Consultant

2nd Best Paper: A Comparison of Two Pair Programming Configurations for Upper Elementary Students

Jennifer Tsan, North Carolina State University; Jessica Vandenberg, North Carolina State University; Zarifa Zakaria, North Carolina State University; Joseph B. Wiggins, University of Florida; Alexander R. Webber, University of Florida; Amanda Bradbury, North Carolina State University; Collin Lynch, North Carolina State University; Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University; Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, University of Florida

3rd Best Paper: Reviewing CS1 Materials through a Collaborative Software Engineering Exercise: An Experience Report

Jessica Young Schmidt, North Carolina State University

Curricula Initiatives

1st Best Paper: Design Principles behind Beauty and Joy of Computing

Paul Goldenberg, Education Development Center; June Mark, Education Development Center; Brian Harvey, University of California, Berkeley; Al Cuoco, Education Development Center; Mary Fries, Education Development Center

2nd Best Paper: Teaching Autonomous Systems at 1/10th-scale: Design of the F1/10 Racecar, Simulators and Curriculum

Abhijeet Agnihotri, Oregon State University; Matthew O’Kelly, University of Pennsylvania; Houssam Abbas, Oregon State University; Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania

3rd Best Paper: Creating a Balanced Data Science Program

Joel C. Adams, Calvin University

SIGCSE 2020 Chairs

Jian Zhang, SIGCSE 2020 Symposium Co-Chair, Texas Woman's University
Mark Sherriff, SIGCSE 2020 Symposium Co-Chair, University of Virginia
Sarah Heckman, SIGCSE 2020 Program Co-Chair, NC State University
Alvaro Monge, SIGCSE 2020 Program Co-Chair, California State University, Long Beach
Pamela Cutter, SIGCSE 2020 Program Co-Chair, Kalamazoo College
Jian Zhang
Symposium Co-Chair
Texas Woman's University
Mark Sherriff
Symposium Co-Chair
University of Virginia
Sarah Heckman
Program Co-Chair
NC State University
Alvaro Monge
Program Co-Chair
California State University, Long Beach
Pam Cutter
Program Co-Chair
Kalamazoo College