Overview
Focus area: Computer Science education.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of the Practice of Computer Science
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2008 - Present
Computer Science,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Computer Science
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2018 - Present
Computer Science,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
A Multi-Institutional Study on Peer Instruction: Evaluating Text-Chat with Assigned Group Members vs Verbal Discussion
Conference SIGCSE TS 2026 Proceedings of the 57th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V 1 · February 17, 2026 In Peer Instruction (PI) an instructor displays a challenging multiple-choice question during lecture that students answer individually, discuss verbally with nearby peers, answer individually again, and finally, the instructor leads a discussion of the qu ... Full text CiteComputing Science Research: Broadening Participation through Undergraduate Experiences
Conference Iticse Wgr 2025 Publication of the 2025 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education · February 12, 2026 We investigate students perceptions of computing science (CS) research, and the role of undergraduate research experiences in attracting, engaging, and retaining undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds in computing science programs. Adopting a mixe ... Full text CiteExploring Effective Early Research Exposure for Broadening Participation in Computing Science
Conference Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Iticse · June 27, 2025 Evidence supports offering research experiences for undergraduate computing science students as a means of broadening participation in computing[7, 10, 11]. However, student perceptions about computing science research, how students become interested in th ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
The Association of Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education's Global Computing Education Conference
TravelPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2025 - 2028Collaborative Research: Overcoming Barriers to Adoption of Peer Instruction in Undergraduate CS
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2027ACM Global Computing Education Conference (CompEd 2019) Travel Grant
ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2024View All Grants
Education
Purdue University ·
1989
Ph.D.