What Are Computer Science Educators Interested In?

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What Are Computer Science Educators Interested In? The Case of SIGCSE Conferences Ragonis Noa, Beit Berl College & Technion Israel Institute of Technology Hazzan Orit, Technion Israel Institute of Technology Rational One of the challenges facing CS educators is coping with the rapid changes and developments taking place in: the discipline of CS the students' interests and skills new approaches and methods of teaching, learning and evaluating These changes require CS educators, to constantly adjust their course syllabi as well as their teaching methods in order to prepare students for the unknown future studies and future work market. Objective To explore the changing in the fields of interest of the computer science education (CSE) community. We choose SIGCSE conferences as a first case study. We reviewed four conferences between 2006-2018: 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 Our assumption was that changes will be expressed less in subsequent conferences. SIGCSE The SIGCSE Technical Symposium is the largest computing education conference worldwide organized by the ACM organization. It attracts over 1,500 researchers, educators, and others interested in improving computing education in K-12 and higher education. It is a forum for educators and researchers to share new results and insights around developing, implementing, or evaluating computing programs, curricula, and courses. The 2019 conference celebrated its’ 50th meeting. SIGCSE main venues Papers Panels Special Sessions Posters SIGCSE venues Main Venues appeared at all four conferences Papers Panels Special Sessions Posters Additional venues which arose during the years Demos (environments) Lightning talks (short presentation) Birds of a Feather (discussion of similar interests) Nifty assignments (share successful assignment) Pre & Post event Workshops Our research focused on Papers Panels Special Sessions Papers describe an educational research project, classroom experience, teaching technique, curricular initiative, or pedagogical tool. Panels present multiple perspectives on a specific topic. Special sessions include a seminar on a new topic, a committee report, or a forum on curriculum issues. Data base Number of papers, panels, and special sessions presented at SIGCSE 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018 Data analysis For each item in each presentation category, we examined: Session head (in which the papers were presented) Presentation title Categories and subject descriptors (in 2006, 2010, 2014) General terms (in 2006, 2010, 2014) CCS concepts (in 2018) Keywords Data analysis considerations (I) Session heads: reflect the conference chairs' perspective on the conference topics and focal themes. Hence are relevant to content categorization. General terms: did not lead