Papers by Andrea Lawrence
Building a sense of history
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 2005
This working group laid the groundwork for the collection and analysis of oral histories of women... more This working group laid the groundwork for the collection and analysis of oral histories of women computing educators. This endeavor will eventually create a body of narratives to serve as role models to attract students, in particular women, to computing; it will also serve to preserve the history of the female pioneers in computing education. Pre-conference work included administration of
Trends and discoveries of the computing educators oral history project
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 2009
1. SUMMARY This panel will present concrete results from initial analyses of the growing body of ... more 1. SUMMARY This panel will present concrete results from initial analyses of the growing body of interviews in the Computing Educators Oral History Project (CEOHP). We will present a brief background of the project, with the bulk of the panel focusing on issues related to the techniques and results that have been explored during these early stages of the project.
ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2010
Many undergraduate liberal arts institutions offer computer science majors. This article illustra... more Many undergraduate liberal arts institutions offer computer science majors. This article illustrates how quality computer science programs can be realized in a wide variety of liberal arts settings by describing and contrasting the actual programs at five liberal arts colleges: Williams College, Kalamazoo College, the State University of New York at Geneseo, Spelman College, and Calvin College. While the example programs differ in size, mission, and the nature of their home institutions, all take advantage of their liberal arts setting to offer rich computer science educations. Comparing these programs to each other and to the latest ACM/IEEE Computer Society computer science curriculum shows that the liberal arts programs are distinguishable from the ACM/Computer Society recommendations, but at the same time are strong undergraduate majors.
Session details: Paper Session: Diversity #2
Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
Empirically assessment algorithm animation as learning aids
Empirical studies of the value of algorithm animation in algorithm understanding
Ispd, Jan 2, 1993
... one which is made easier to travel by the assistance of others. I especially acknowledge the ... more ... one which is made easier to travel by the assistance of others. I especially acknowledge the support of my reunion group, Yvonne Bernal, Carolyn Fuller, Dorothy Clinkscales, Saundra Harris, and Michelle Barnes, who prayed me through to this point. ...
Empirically Assessing Algorithm Visualizations as Learning Aids
Softvis, 1998
SIGCSE plus you equals leverage
Proceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education - SIGCSE '14, 2014
This paper describes the many possibilities that SIGCSE affords to those who make use of the reso... more This paper describes the many possibilities that SIGCSE affords to those who make use of the resources and opportunities the organization and the annual conferences provide.
Information assurance and information security are serious worldwide concerns. Computer security ... more Information assurance and information security are serious worldwide concerns. Computer security is one of the three new focal areas of the ACM/IEEE's Computer Science Curriculum update in 2008. This ACM/IEEE report describes, as the first of its three recent trends, "the emergence of security as a major area of concern." [3] The purpose of this working group report is to continue the work of the 2009 working group on information assurance (IA) education. The focus of the 2010 working group is to examine the curricula of existing academic programs, as well as at the key academic governmental and industry IA education standards and guidelines identified by the 2009 IA working group in order to begin defining the IA education space as a first step towards developing curricular guidelines.
Empirically evaluating the use of animations to teach algorithms
Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, 1994
... [ 1 11 Andrea W. Lawrence. Empirical Studies of the lralue of Algorithm Animation in Algorith... more ... [ 1 11 Andrea W. Lawrence. Empirical Studies of the lralue of Algorithm Animation in Algorithm Understanding. PhD thesis, Georgia Instituteof Technology, 1993. [12] Richard E. Mayer and Richard B. Anderson. Ani-mations need narrations: An experimental test of a dual ...
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 2005
This working group laid the groundwork for the collection and analysis of oral histories of women... more This working group laid the groundwork for the collection and analysis of oral histories of women computing educators. This endeavor will eventually create a body of narratives to serve as role models to attract students, in particular women, to computing; it will also serve to preserve the history of the female pioneers in computing education. Pre-conference work included administration of a survey to assess topical interest. The working group produced aids for conducting interviews, including an opening script, an outline of topics to be covered, guidelines for conducting interviews, and a set of probing questions to ensure consistency in the interviews. The group explored issues such as copyright and archival that confront the large-scale implementation of the project and suggested extensions to this research. This report includes an annotated bibliography of resources. The next steps will include training colleagues in how to conduct interviews and establishing guidelines for archival and use of the interviews.
Performance comparison of multiple image depth and shape cues
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 1993
This research has implications for tasks in human‐computer interaction where the user must intera... more This research has implications for tasks in human‐computer interaction where the user must interact with display information that is organized on multiple axes. We describe the results of an experiment that compared the effectiveness of five different techniques for shape and depth discrimination. The methods evaluated were binocular parallax, alternating horizontal parallax, alternating vertical parallax, motion parallax, and motion parallax
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 2007
This report expands upon the work started by an ITiCSE 2005 Working Group, which established the ... more This report expands upon the work started by an ITiCSE 2005 Working Group, which established the groundwork for collecting and analyzing the oral histories of computing educators and provided a foundation for the Computing Educators Oral History Project (CEOHP). The main charge for the Working Group during ITiCSE 2008 was to begin analyzing the interviews already included in CEOHP. As part of the process of exploring analysis approaches, we revisited the status of CEOHP and what had been learned since 2005. We report on analytical procedures for using the interviews as research data and as the basis for informational, motivational resources. We describe techniques and software tools we investigated for qualitative (thematic) analysis of this rich set of personal histories. The analysis allowed themes to emerge naturally from the interviews and suggested specific areas for further investigation. The report describes plans, including procedural updates, archival options, web portal needs, legal and ethical issues, target groups, and publication targets. We conclude with a discussion of future challenges for CEOHP.
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