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Computerisation and digitalisation are shaping the world in fundamental and unpredictable ways, which highlights the importance of computing education research (CER). As part of understanding the roots of CER, it is crucial to investigate the evolution of CER as a research discipline. In this paper we present a case study of a Finnish CER conferenc...
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... shift from a local conference to an international publication and meeting venue for computing educators is clearly visible in Koli Calling author profile (Fig. 4 14 or more contributions in 9 or more proceedings of Koli. Lauri Malmi was involved in 24 papers over 12 distinct years, which earned him the top position on the list of most productive authors in Koli, followed by Petri Ihantola (17 papers over 15 years), Simon (17 papers over 13 years), Ari Korhonen (15 papers over 11 years) and ...
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... Calling started in 2001 as a local, national conference. Participants from the neighboring countries started to join in the following years (see Section II). Fig. 4 shows the frequencies of contributions per country each year, as determined by the affiliations of the first authors. The number of articles from other countries has increased over the years, while the share of papers originating from Finland has steadily declined. In the first year of Koli Calling in 2001, all authors were associated ...
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... collaboration?" Interpreting the bibliometric data reveals a number of trends in the development of the Koli Calling conference series into an international publication venue of high standing in the ACM community. The trend towards developing the conference as an international venue for computing education reseach can be clearly seen in Fig. 4. The early years show a conference more or less for the Finnish Computing Education Research community that changed into a fairly international conference with a substantial Finnish core of authors after a few years. This trend has, in the last few years, developed further and the conference entered a phase in around 2013 in which the ...
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... With the development of globalization, international education has become an important component of higher education [1,2]. Students have more opportunities to study abroad, communicate, and do internships, which provides them with a unique intercultural experience [3][4][5][6]. At the same time, intercultural communication competence (ICC) gets more and more attention and has been considered a necessary skill to help students better adapt and integrate into different cultural backgrounds [7,8]. ...
With the acceleration of globalization, international education has gradually become the core content of higher education. In this context, students have encountered lots of intercultural challenges, making the evaluation and improvement of their intercultural communication competence (ICC) a key issue. It is difficult for traditional evaluation methods, such as questionnaire surveys, interviews, and teacher evaluations, to meet the needs of current educational institutions because they are subjective, time-consuming, and inefficient. After describing the ICC evaluation process of students under the international education management model, this study proposed a new automatic evaluation method based on the dual-scale convolutional neural network (CNN) model and the bi-directional long-short-term memory (Bi-LSTM) model of characters and words. The new method evaluated students’ ICC more accurately and objectively, providing a new perspective and tool for future research and educational training.
... This resembles the nature of the non-dedicated venues in Tab. 3 Authors Per Category publishing broadly on educational technology, informatics, information technology, and engineering. On the other hand, in the dedicated venues, stronger keywords include research in introductory courses (CS1/CS2), object-oriented programming, novice programmers, java, design, and automatic assessment. ...
... Electronic submission systems became common after 2000. Analyses have shown popularity of keywords related to introductory programming, and recent increase of K-12, computational thinking and gender diversity [19,6] [3]. Since 2001, the community of Koli Calling has evolved and diversified, with increased international collaboration [46,42,41,34]. ...
... Since 2001, the community of Koli Calling has evolved and diversified, with increased international collaboration [46,42,41,34]. Indeed, Koli Calling has evolved from a small gathering of local computing teachers to an internationally acknowledged conference; by 2006, the number of Finnish authors had shrunk by half, and in 2020, the largest share of authors were from USA [3]. ...
A fundamental part of science is dissemination. Previous research has analysed dissemination practices in few of the central publication outlets. In this chapter, we add into that research by analysing dissemination practices of CER in a range of 1523 journals and conference series that are (a) exclusively dedicated to CER, and (b) in outlets that publish CER together with other topics, such as general education, engineering or computer science. Our results show that a small and highly dedicated core of venues publishes a remarkable share of CER, that CER has a conference-oriented publication tendency, significant variations in citation rates, and differences in the diversity of topics within and between the dedicated and non-dedicated publication outlets. In all, our macro-level analysis makes a significant contribution into the research of dissemination in CER.
... For more information about the conference and a scientometric analysis of its publications, see [7]. ...
Despite being a small country, Finland has been highly visible in international Computing Education Research (CER). This is demonstrated by the presence of several important research groups, dozens of graduated PhD students in CER during the last 20 years, and the success of the Koli Calling International Conference of CER, which has been running for 20 years now. In this chapter, we present the development of the CER field in Finland, the profiles of various research groups, and the roles of several national level networking activities which have supported the field. We discuss factors behind the strong presence and success of CER in Finnish universities.
... Over the years, many reviews, meta-reviews, and scientometric analyses of CER publications have been conducted [10,40,54]. Previous reviews have classified CER publications from many perspectives; analyses have focused on specific publication venues of CER [8,10,43], several reviews have targeted computer programming as a topic to teach [2,28], while other research has investigated theory use, research design and methodology use in CER [4,45,49]. Modern scientometric studies have analysed collaboration networks, geographical diversity, and keyword trends in CER publications [9,10,15,42,54]. ...
Scientometric analyses of publication data from all major computing education research (CER) outlets show that many countries and whole continents are greatly underrepresented on the global map of contributions to CER. For example, only a minor portion of CER has originated from countries in the Global South (GS) or has addressed challenges of computing education in the GS. In this chapter, we shift the focus to scientometrically analyse CER papers that originate from countries in the GS. From the metadata of all CER publications in central publication outlets of CER, we have selected a subset of articles with authors affiliated to an institution in a GS Country, as defined by the United Nations (UN). The analysis shows publication trends, prolific authors, and country collaboration patterns. A number of crucial and interesting avenues for future research and collaboration are presented.
Considering the importance of education especially for the newer field of education, the current study proposes a novel teaching method based on storytelling that aims to enhance the creativity of students and improve the effectiveness of learning. The method was applied and analyzed through a one-year teaching course case study to introduce topics regarding renewable energy. Despite traditional education, in which learning occurs through the direct transfer of information, here a plot with the theme of mountaineering and nature using real photos and narration of a fictional story was set for the implementation of the proposed method. Therefore, the unintentional consequences of conventional teaching including quick content forgetting, failure to define the main purpose, improper reaction, and low attractiveness and even effectiveness were prevented. Considering the affective and cognitive domains of Bloom’s Taxonomy as well as analyzing the performances of students during the teaching course and their final feedback, the results showed promising improvements including more participation (100%), better retention of content (receiving (75%) and remembering (83.33%)). While the learners preferred the proposed method and found it more effective (75%) and attractive (79.17%) than conventional teaching. Moreover, it was shown that the proposed method can improve education criteria in other affective and cognitive domains and is recommended to be considered for implementation in other complex engineering topics.
Scientometrics has emerged as a research field for the evaluation and mapping of scientific fields, exploring research themes, collaboration clusters and identifying gaps and future trends. While early implementations have focused on quantitative metrics, recent directions emphasize a more nuanced approach that combines qualitative methods with quantitative analysis that triangulates several aspects, e.g., temporal trends, network, and semantic analysis. This chapter reviews scientometrics as a research methodology and discusses the strengths and weaknesses and how such weaknesses can be amended. The chapter also discusses the main methodological approach, and its theoretical underpinnings, used in some of the book chapters that make use of scientometrics as a means to map the field of CER.
Computer science education has been researched in Israel for a few decades, both at the K-12 and the undergraduate levels. The rich variety of the investigated topics addressed from the very beginning issues beyond the introductory course and programming, including the nature of the discipline and its fundamental ideas and concepts, which are stable, unlike the more technological aspects. Understanding the nature of the discipline and mapping its fundamental ideas and concepts constitute the basis on which curricula stand. Therefore, we chose to organize this chapter around ideas and concepts of CS. In line with this perspective, we will discuss research of all age levels: K-12, undergraduate, and even the graduate level, as well as research relating to teachers. We will present design-based research, which accompanied the design of new curricula, as well as studies aiming at identifying phenomena, or investigating educational hypotheses. We will also point out current challenges and possible future directions.
Computing Education Research (CER), like any other discipline of science, is fundamentally driven by people and their networks of collaboration. Previous research has analysed authorship patterns and collaboration in distinct well known dissemination outlets of CER. In this chapter, we add to that approach by analysing a comprehensive set of metadata of CER publications. We analyse author productivity including newcomer patterns, clusters of co-authorship and international collaboration, and authors who build bridges between communities. Our results reveals top authors and their production before and after 2000, clusters of collaborators and their areas of topics as revealed by top keywords, a healthy evolution of newcomer-patterns, and a set of authors who build bridges between communities. In all, our macro-level analysis adds a significant contribution to our understanding of the role of authors in the evolution of CER.
