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Tutorial 402: Actually Achieving “A’s for All” (as time and interest allow)

Tutorials When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 15:30 - 18:30 People: Daniel Garcia, Armando Fox, Patty Lopez, Mariana Silva, Craig Zilles, Edwin Ambrosio

… , and specifications grading are important steps towards the Holy Grail: “A’s for All …. In other words, students can all achieve the same learning outcomes … and administrators with tools to implement the “A’s for All” (as time …

All Scripture is Useful for Teaching: CS Education through a Christian Worldview

Birds of a Feather When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 12:35 - 13:25 People: Elijah Rivera, Russ Tuck

… …

Measuring Students’ Perceptions of an Autograded Scaffolding Tool for Students Performing at All Levels in an Algorithms Class

Papers When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 11:40 - 12:00 People: Yael Gertner, Brad Solomon, Hongxuan Chen, Eliot Robson, Carl Evans, Jeff Erickson

… student feedback is favorable over all four offerings, and for groups of students …

DiverseClaire: Simulating Students to Improve Introductory Programming Course Materials for All CS1 Learners

Posters When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 10:00 - 12:00 People: Wendy Wong, Yuchao Jiang, Yuekang Li

… Although CS programs are booming, introductory courses like CS1 still adopt a one-size-fits-all formats that can exacerbate cognitive load and discourage learners with autism, ADHD, dyslexia and other neurological conditions. These call …

Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) Meeting

Logistics When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 18:00 - 19:00 People: Gloria Washington, Sana Algaraibeh

… This meeting will welcome all faculty from Minority Serving Institutions, as well as anyone interested in strengthening the SIGCSE experience for MSI … programming to address. Open to all attendees, not only those from the U.S.A. …

Demo 1A: Teaching Responsible Computing Using the Accessible Learning Labs

Demos When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 10:00 - 10:40 People: Ursula Parker, Samuel Malachowsky, Farzana Rahman, Daniel Krutz

… , responsible, and respectful of all people and communities. Too often, software … to as the Accessible Learning Labs (ALL). This demo focuses on three of those labs …, and the third regarding bias in machine learning.

All labs are accessible …

Black in Computing Community

Birds of a Feather When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 17:30 - 18:20 People: Dale-Marie Wilson, Marlon Mejias, Jody Marshall, Yolanda Rankin, Cheryl Swanier

… academic and non-academic, of all attendees. This contributes to all tenets …

Investigating Answer Choice Bias within a College-Level Introductory Computing Assessment

Papers When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 16:20 - 16:40 People: Miranda Parker, Sin Yu Ciou, Yale Quan, He Ren, Chun Wang, Min Li

… option. All parts of a question need to be carefully designed to support assessment … fairer measures of learning for all students. …

Learning Persistence & Resistance from History & SIGCSE Reads

Panels When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 10:40 - 12:00 People: Rebecca Bates, Judy Goldsmith, Valerie Summet, Nanette Veilleux, Katie Johnson, Michael Littman, Kyla McMullen, Jeremy A. Magruder Waisome

… is to motivate and inspire actions that improve CS education for all. …

Adoption of Alternative Grading Practices in CS Classrooms

Special Sessions When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 13:40 - 15:00 People: Adrienne Decker, Stephen Edwards, David Largent, Kevin Lin, Nadia Najjar, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

… to the experience implementing them and pitfalls to be avoided. The presenters all have …

GenAI Consortium: Curriculum, Research, and Best Practices for Teaching CS with AI

Supporter Sessions When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 15:40 - 16:30 People: Sam Lau, Leo Porter, Beth Simon, Dan Zingaro

… of our open educational materials, all of which are available at https …

How Can Open Source Prepare Your Students for Professional Practice?

Birds of a Feather When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 18:30 - 19:20 People: Heidi J.C. Ellis, Gregory W. Hislop, Lori Postner, Grant Braught, Darci Burdge, Cam Macdonell

… their experience and offer examples of what they’ve done in the classroom. All … an opportunity to introduce all students to computing for social good. The BoF organizers …

In-Person Residency Impacts on Broadening Participation in Computing: A Case Study of a CS Bridge Program

Lightning Talks When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 14:30 - 14:40 People: Emma Bartnick, Brianna Dym

… , the university arranges travel for all participating students to meet up for 2-3 … experience in computer science ranges from minimal to none at all. A goal …

A Call for Critical Technology to Enable Innovative and Alternative Grading Practices

Papers When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 14:20 - 14:40 People: Adrienne Decker, Stephen Edwards, Bob Edmison, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Audrey Rorrer

… grading systems, submission systems, and practice systems all exist … concepts. By and large, these systems all rely on an underlying mechanism of points …

Mapping Required Ethics Education in Computer Science: Insights from 100 U.S. Programs

Papers When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 14:00 - 14:20 People: Grace Barkhuff, Ellen Zegura

… colleges. In this paper, we analyze a true random sample of all 4-year Bachelor’s …% of all U.S. CS programs require CS ethics in some capacity. Additionally, we found …

Relative Self-Efficacy in Computer Science Courses

Papers When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 11:20 - 11:40 People: Joseph Ditton, John Edwards

… Self-efficacy, sense of belonging, and imposter phenomenon are all phenomena related to an individual’s perception of themselves and others. They are well-studied with mature, validated surveys, and they all have implications on personal …

Tutorial 103: Modernizing the CS Introductory Sequence with Parallel and Distributed Computing (and some AI)

Tutorials When: Wed 18 Feb 2026 19:00 - 22:00 People: Charles Weems, April Crockett, David Bunde, Alan Sussman, Ramachandran Vaidyanathan, Sushil Prasad, Gerald Gannod, Jaime Spacco

… Parallel and distributed computing (PDC) has become pervasive in all aspects of computing, and thus it is essential that students include parallelism … in showing how best to sequentially process large volumes of data. All computing …

Image Compression / Decompression (The OK Text Image Format)

Nifty Assignments When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 13:40 - 13:53 People: Ben Stephenson

… , along with a collection of ‘real’ images that combined all three approaches. Each …

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Conscript ‘Em: Experiences Requiring the Use of AI in a Capstone Course

Papers When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 11:20 - 11:40 People: David Levine

… The introduction of large language models and other similar AI tools has greatly changed teaching and learning at all levels. Most literature responding to this has focused on how to detect, to discourage, or to otherwise deal …

Codeless Modules for Parallel and Distributed Computing in Early Computing Curriculum

Papers When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 11:00 - 11:20 People: Chris Bourke

… that incorporate visualizations, simulations, and demonstrations, all of which do not require …

Alternatives in Compiler Construction Pedagogy

Papers When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 15:40 - 16:00 People: Arthur C Nunes

… and parser generators. And Clojure’s s-expressions all but eliminate the issue …

Generative AI’s Impact on Computing Education – International Perspectives

Panels When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 13:40 - 15:00 People: Amruth N. Kumar, Sherif G. Aly Ahmed, Pankaj Jalote, Marcelo Pias

… , the panel will be timely and the global conversation will be of interest to all

Context Matters: Leveraging GenAI for Engaging Computing Education

Special Sessions When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 10:40 - 12:00 People: Simone Smarr, Tiffanie Smith

… Context matters in learning experiences. Situating learning within relevant contexts and allowing all learners to feel more connected to the content can benefit learners, especially when learning complex computing concepts. Generative AI …

BOF: Learner-Centered Grading in Computer Science Courses

Birds of a Feather When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 12:35 - 13:25 People: David Largent, Adrienne Decker, Stephen Edwards, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Christian Roberson

… computing classrooms more accessible and fair for all students. …

CS Unplugged in Gateway Computing Courses: A Collaborative, Active Learning Approach in Introductory Computing

Papers When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 13:40 - 14:00 People: Hyesung Park, Evelyn Brannock, Tacksoo Im, Wei Jin, Sunae Shin, Xin Xu, David Kerven

… understanding, engagement, and a supportive learning environment for all

Teaching Algorithmic Thinking to Elementary Students in an Unplugged Environment

Papers When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 11:40 - 12:00 People: Maggie Vanderberg, Dylana Garfus-Knowles, Gladys Krause, Eva Skuratowicz, Eping Hung

… Computational thinking (CT) is becoming widely acknowledged as a foundational skill for all learners, yet the research literature on how to effectively teach CT, especially in elementary grades, remains underdeveloped. Early intervention …

CS and SE Education, post-AI

Keynotes When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 09:00 - 10:00 People: Titus Winters

… CS educators teach programming. Generative AI tools can program. So we’re clearly wasting our time teaching CS to students in the AI era, right? There’s no need for junior programmers, enrollments are dropping, and we should all plan …

Situating LLMs in Time: A Visual Tool for Teaching the History and Architecture of Modern NLP

Posters When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 15:00 - 17:00 People: Michael Gathara, Aditya Makineni, Amber Wagner

… “Attention is All You Need” paper through major model families and research …

A New Model for Educational Program Assessments Using Automated Collective Concept Maps

Posters When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 10:00 - 12:00 People: Andrew Paullin, Debbie Perouli

… to assess a program overall, and to compare the performance of all programs …

A Rubric for Equitable Grading Practices

Posters When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 10:00 - 12:00 People: Anika Sikka, Heidy Hernandez, Shreya Mantipragada, Aananya Lakhani, Dan Garcia

… Equitable grading practices, particularly the “A’s for All” approach, aim to enhance student success for a diverse set of learners through formative assessments, eliminating curving, cumulative exams, lower-stakes assessments with retakes …

Sticky Analogies

Birds of a Feather When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 18:30 - 19:20 People: Joël Porquet-Lupine, Maria R. Ebling, Daniel Garcia, Colleen M. Lewis, Michael Guerzhoy, Bill Siever, Ben Stephenson, Jim Williams

… that build off the ideas shared by other attendees, and help all attendees …

Culturally Responsive Computer Science and Social Studies Integration in Middle School

Papers When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 13:40 - 14:00 People: Mengying Jiang, Kristin Searle, Michaela Harper

… Efforts to provide all K-12 students in the United States with access to computer science (CS) education have increasingly focused on integration of CS … a requirement that all K-12 students learn about the Indigenous inhabitants …

Improving the Reliability of Grading Written-Response Coding Questions in a Large CS1 Course

Papers When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 14:20 - 14:40 People: Wei Jin, Xin Xu, Hyesung Park, Evelyn Brannock, Tacksoo Im

… and accuracy, each grader scored a specific question across all submissions, with two … to 0.967 (all data) and 0.831 to 0.875 (excluding zero scores).

We describe …

An Implementation Evaluation of a Program Integrating Computational Thinking into Core High School Curriculum

Posters When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 10:00 - 12:00 People: Anupama Pattabiraman, Elisa Steele, Jessica Falbaum

… student interest and success in CS involves providing all students opportunities … instruction in core subject matter courses taken by all 9th- and 10th-grade …

Iris: A Content Management System Supporting Typography and Accessibility

Posters When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 10:00 - 12:00 People: Wong Zhao, Maryam Majedi

… are designed for all students, but especially target students with disabilities … for one assignment. For the second survey, students used Iris for all assignments …

Launching an Educational Vision to Expand Leadership, Understanding, and Progress in Artificial Intelligence (LEVEL UP AI)

Birds of a Feather When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 12:35 - 13:25 People: Sri Yash Tadimalla, Noah Cowit, Stephanie T. Jones, Mary Lou Maher, Jeffrey Forbes, Tracy Camp

… This 50-minute session will foster dialogue around expanding AI education programs and building capacity for all, leveraging the NSF LEVEL UP AI project …) Strategies to Increase Capacity in AI Education, and (4) AI Education for All. This BOF …

Fostering Computer Science Theory Literacy: What makes a good conceptual model?

Birds of a Feather When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 17:30 - 18:20 People: Kimberly Fluet, Christopher Homan

… Students from across all areas of computer science find the skills of computer science theory (CST) literacy–such as formal modeling and algorithms building … in groups has great potential to help all CS majors achieve CST literacy …

Developing a Survey Instrument for Sense of Belonging in Computing Courses

Papers When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 11:00 - 11:20 People: Morgan Fong, Andrea Watkins, Geoffrey Herman

all 12 items (>0.90). The inter-component correlations were relatively high for all pairs of components (>0.60), aligning with previous interview findings …

Teaching Algorithm Design: A Literature Review

Journal First When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 11:33 - 12:00 People: Jonathan Liu, Seth Poulsen, Erica Goodwin, Hongxuan Chen, Grace Williams, Yael Gertner, Diana Franklin

… Curricular Guidelines) and evaluated on post-secondary-level students. Across all … papers report controlled trials. In addition, almost all authors only contribute …

Feedback Beyond Departmental Industry Advisory Boards: The CRA Practitioner-to-Professor Survey

Special Sessions When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 15:40 - 17:00 People: Rajendra K. Raj, Rahul Simha, Helen Wright

… programs.

Unlike broad all-major surveys, P2P focuses on computer science …

Nifty Assignments: Tone Matrix

Nifty Assignments When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 14:06 - 14:20 People: Keith Schwarz

… toward the top. All lights on the same row play the same note and correspond …

Can Computer Science Instructors See Inside the Cognitive Black Box of Student AI Use?

Lightning Talks When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 11:00 - 11:10 People: Ronni Kurtzhals, Anne Denton, Terry Traylor

… , and the institutional impulse to impose one-size-fits-all policies. Across interviews …

Birds of a Feather Who'd Like to Share Software Together: Teaching Tools that Improve Efficiency and Outcomes

Birds of a Feather When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 17:30 - 18:20 People: Doug Lloyd, Kelly Ding, David J. Malan

… Odds are we’ve all used (or tried!) quite a few tools to facilitate efficiency inside and outside of the classroom and empower students to learn more effectively, whether on campus or off. Some of those tools are perhaps homegrown …

Beyond Traditional Exams: Student-Created Podcasts for Collaborative Learning in Computing Education

Lightning Talks When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 13:50 - 14:00 People: Pedro Guillermo Feijóo-García, Lucas Guarenti Zangari

… , reinforce conceptual understanding, and develop communication skills as all

Demo 3B: Adaptive Skill-Mastery Feedback Loops in AI-Generated Courses

Demos When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 10:00 - 10:40 People: Aibek Musaev, Kerimbek Musaev, Mirbek Dzhumaliev, Calton Pu

… their performance across all skills. Based on these results, the system dynamically …

Alternative Assessment in the Era of AI

Birds of a Feather When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 18:30 - 19:20 People: Peter Ohmann, Ed Novak, Scott Reckinger, Shanon Reckinger

… of assessment. Participation is encouraged from all experience levels, from those who have …

Teaching the algorithm design technique selection process

Doctoral Consortium When: Wed 18 Feb 2026 08:30 - 17:00 People: Dip Kiran Pradhan Newar

… to be followed, like asking students to select all possible algorithms for a given problem …

Tutorial 303: Transform Your Computer Science Course with Specifications Grading

Tutorials When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 19:00 - 22:00 People: David Largent, Christian Roberson, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

… that it can be implemented on a continuum, and is not an all or nothing approach. Each …

CS Transfer 2Y Curricula Focus Group

Affiliated Events When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 15:30 - 18:30 People: Christian Servin

… professionals from all levels of Computing education will engage in a structured …

CS Ed. in Prisons and Jails: Evidence of Computer Programming Self-Efficacy Growth Across Multiple Course Offerings

Papers When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 10:40 - 11:00 People: Andrew Fishberg, Marisa Gaetz, Martin Nisser, Carole Cafferty, Lee Perlman, Raechel N. Soicher, Joshua Long

… that all subscales of computer programming self-efficacy (algorithm, control …

Choosing Their Own Way: Guided Self-Placement for Students in an Introductory Programming Sequence

Papers When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 16:00 - 16:20 People: Brett Wortzman, Melissa Chen, Miya Natsuhara, Eleanor O'Rourke

… that all students who followed the tool’s recommen- dation believed the suggested …

Capturing Student Reasoning with Low-Cost AI: An Early Experience in a Data-Structures Course

Papers When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 10:40 - 11:00 People: Kwabena Bamfo, Olaf Hall-Holt, Oluwakemi Ola, Govindha Yeluripati, Dennis Owusu

… alternative. Despite rising interest in such tasks, almost all previous research …

Extracurricular Activities Predict CS Internship Attainment

Papers When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 10:40 - 11:00 People: Christopher Perdriau, Bridget Agyare, Colleen M. Lewis

… participation, seven extracurricular activities, and background.

Findings: All seven …

Bridging Prerequisite Gaps: When, How, and How Much?

Papers When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 16:00 - 16:20 People: Lisa Zhang, Alice Gao, Jessica Wen, Alisha Hasan

… to believe that there is no one-size-fit-all for prerequisite review …

EduLint: a Versatile Tool for Code Quality Feedback

Papers When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 14:00 - 14:20 People: Anna Rechtackova, Radek Pelánek

… and easy to use. Across all the deployments, EduLint has already delivered code …

Where are the faculty? The missing perspective on teaching socio-ethical competencies in computer science

Papers When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 14:40 - 15:00 People: Tommaso Carraro, Maurizio Marchese, Lorenzo Angeli

… are duly training all the change-makers: not only the students, but also …

A Pedagogy for Assessing Individual Contributions to Team-Based Software Projects

Papers When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 10:40 - 11:00 People: Yolanda Reimer, Chris Hundhausen, Ananth Jillepalli, Olusola Adesope

all members of a team together using a set of traditional deliverables …

How’s the GenAI Infusion Going? Lessons from Integrating AI Tools in Cybersecurity Focused Computer Science Curricula at Two- and Four-Year Colleges

Panels When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 15:40 - 17:00 People: Christian Servin, Debasis Bhattacharya, Rajiv Malkan

… college, a small rural community college, and a baccalaureate-granting university—all

Teaching Faculty Careers without a PhD: A Mentoring Community

Birds of a Feather When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 12:35 - 13:25 People: Adam Blank, Michael Ball, Travis Quincy McGaha, Suraj Rampure, Yesenia Velasco, Kendra Walther

… participants at all levels of experience, with space for both questions and community …

An Instructor Dashboard to Support Mastery Learning

Posters When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 10:00 - 12:00 People: Shreya Mantipragada, Eldar Hasanov, Adam Hacker, Weishu Zhang, Samuel Hilkey, Juan Ponce de Leon, Dan Garcia

… the scores for a particular student across all assignments and exams. The system …

Collective Impact at Scale: Comparing State-level Policy Adoption Related to Broadening Participation in Computing

Posters When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 10:00 - 12:00 People: Ryan Torbey, Carol Fletcher, Jaci McCune, Delores Rice, Joshua Childs

… Embracing the idea that all students should learn the fundamentals of computer science (CS), the United States has funded the development of coalitions designed to expand CS education. This poster employs an exploratory comparative …

Teaching Students to Navigate Intellectual Property Ethics in AI-Assisted Development

Posters When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 15:00 - 17:00 People: Tanvi Ladha, Maryam Majedi

… that integrates intellectual property education into CS1 and CS2 courses with all

A Statewide Analysis of Ethics and Social Impact in the CS Teacher Preparation Pipeline

Posters When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 10:00 - 12:00 People: Brendan Henrique, Kyle Fischer

… with a clear credential pathway for CS. We examined all universities in that state …

LearnSPH: A Tool for Teaching the Basics of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics in Graphics Research

Posters When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 15:00 - 17:00 People: Martin Angell, Gizem Kayar Ceylan

… -source SPH resources and various publications, nearly all of them are aligned …

A Longitudinal Pilot Study Exploring the Impacts of Coaching for Equity on Computer Science Teachers

Papers When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 10:40 - 11:00 People: Jennifer Rosato, Joseph Tise, Monica McGill, Megan Deiger

… Background. U.S. state and district policies increasingly mandate the teaching of computer science (CS) in K-12 classrooms. To ensure all students benefit from computing education, we recognized the crucial need for teachers’ to adopt …

Google Session Two: Integrating AI in Education and Research: If, When, and How to Ensure Learning Fidelity Today to Shape a Holistic Future of Computing Education

Supporter Sessions When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 10:40 - 12:00 People: Monica McGill

… , and ensure this innovative technology serves all children responsibly.

Attendees …

Where are the Disabled Students?: A Literature Review of Disability Inclusion in Computing Education Research

Papers When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 14:00 - 14:20 People: Isabela Figueira, Josahandi Cisneros, Jason Weber, Wendy Sanka, Karen Phan, Jennifer Wong-Ma, Stacy Branham

… on these findings, we advocate for increased involvement of disabled people in all aspects …

Community Input for the Globalization of Computing Curricula

Birds of a Feather When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 12:35 - 13:25 People: Rick Blumenthal, Amruth N. Kumar, Michael Oudshoorn

… participation among all attendees. Any SIGCSE attendee with an interest in making …

Overcoming Barriers to Adopting Peer Instruction

Papers When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 14:00 - 14:20 People: Xingjian Gu, Memuna Tariq, Zihan Wu, Barbara Ericson

… of student misconceptions. All instructors who adopted the free tool plan …

Connecting Computing Students' External Help Resource Preferences and Internal Help Resource Usage: 2021-2025

Papers When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 10:40 - 11:00 People: Shao-Heng Ko, Kristin Stephens-Martinez

… of internal resources in some but not all courses. We identify a substantial …

Twelfth SPLICE Workshop on Technology and Data Infrastructure for CS Education Research

Affiliated Events When: Wed 18 Feb 2026 08:30 - 17:00 People: Cliff Shaffer, Peter Brusilovsky, Ken Koedinger, Thomas Price, Tiffany Barnes

… Many SIGCSE attendees are either developing or using online educational tools, and all will benefit from better interoperability among these tools and better analysis of the clickstream data coming from those tools. New tools for analyzing …

Teaching Computing in Prison

Birds of a Feather When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 18:30 - 19:20 People: Emma Hogan Benser, Keith O'Hara, Andrew Fishberg, Leo Porter

… to all members of society. However, computing education, as well as basic digital …

Envisioning CS1 and CS2: The Future of Introductory Problem Solving and Programming

Birds of a Feather When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 17:30 - 18:20 People: Gerald Gannod, David Bunde, April Crockett, Alan Sussman, Sushil Prasad, Charles Weems, Ramachandran Vaidyanathan, Suzanne Matthews, Jaime Spacco

… Computer Science education, and all education for that matter, is being disrupted by Generative AI. While there have been few truly transformational technologies similar to AI, other incremental but impactful advances have helped shape …

Supporting K-12 CS Teacher Identity Development through Peer Mentoring

Papers When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 14:20 - 14:40 People: Aleata Hubbard Cheuoua, Portia Morrell, Bryan Twarek, Tonya Davis, Kathleen Effner, Amy Fetherston, Kevin Jala, Linnea Logan

… support their mentees, and numerous opportunities for community building among all

Exploring Bilingual Coding for Inclusive Computer Science Learning

Posters When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 15:00 - 17:00 People: Ethel Tshukudu, Neel Asheshbhai Shah, Thien Khang Kieu, Leqaa Deeb, Harshitha Venkateswaran, Aarav Ghai, Yusuf Gadelrab, Nishanth Nagesh, Purujit Hada

… ’ experiences. All students showed improvements across most constructs …

Automated Program Repair of Uncompilable Student Code

Posters When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 10:00 - 12:00 People: Griffin Pitts, Aum Pandya, Darsh Rank, Muntasir Hoq, Tirth Bhatt, Bita Akram

all three LLMs are capable of producing compilable repairs, their behavior …

Playing with Cards for Alternative Research Design (CARD)

Birds of a Feather When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 12:35 - 13:25 People: Miranda Parker, Sophia Krause-Levy, Masoumeh Rahimi

… surfacing valid arguments for adopting alternatives, all with a relatively low time …

Demo 4C: Diverse Claire: An AI-Powered UDL Approach Bridging Educational Experience Gaps in CS1

Demos When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 15:00 - 15:40 People: Madhu Maya Shrestha, Wendy Wong, Omar Al Zeidat, Yuchao Jiang, Yuekang Li

… the needs of all students. …

When AI Meets the Clock: Rethinking Learning and Assessment in Large-Scale Computing Courses

Lightning Talks When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 14:50 - 15:00 People: Pedro Guillermo Feijóo-García, Lucas Guarenti Zangari, Fisayo Omojokun

… built for the course. The task followed an all-or-nothing grading approach …

How Retrieval Augmented Generation Can Assist Secondary Computer Science Educators - Research Description

Doctoral Consortium When: Wed 18 Feb 2026 08:30 - 17:00 People: Christopher Watson

… compared to Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) AI or not using Gen AI at all. The work …

Demo 4B: Free interactive textbooks for teaching parallel and distributed computing across the computer science curriculum

Demos When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 15:00 - 15:40 People: Libby Shoop, Richard Brown, Suzanne Matthews, Joel Adams

… courses or can be used comprehensively for a course dedicated to PDC. All

GitHub for Educators: A Full-Day, Hands-On Workshop for Teaching with GitHub

Supporter Sessions When: Wed 18 Feb 2026 09:00 - 16:00

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Teacher Capacity as a Catalyst: Examining a Research-Practice Partnership’s Impact

ACM Student Research Competition When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 15:00 - 17:00 People: Karanjot Kaur

… scaffolding and time, ultimately fostering learning environments where all students …

Demo 2B: PostCommit: GenAI Powered Code Reflections for Computer Science Students

Demos When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 15:00 - 15:40 People: Aidan Srouji, Andrew Forney

… a PostCommit deployment in 11 CS courses spanning all grade levels …

Analyzing Fine-Grained Skill Development across Computer Science Course Progressions

Journal First When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 11:06 - 11:33 People: Bogdan Simion, Lisa Zhang, Giang Bui, Robin Huang, Ramzi Abu-Zeineh, Shrey Vakil

… encountered in some form in all four courses: (S1) opening and reading data from a file …

Cohorts for Community: Structuring Undergraduate Staff Support

Lightning Talks When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 15:50 - 16:00 People: Kelly Ding, David J. Malan

… mentorship and peer learning. Rather than convening in all-staff meetings, which …

Self-Selected Experience-Based Grouping in CS1: Examining Student Success and Persistence in CS Major

Doctoral Consortium When: Wed 18 Feb 2026 08:30 - 17:00 People: April Crockett

… , these results led my institution to adopt the EBG intervention across all CS1 sections. My …

Enlightning Learning Experiences

Lightning Talks When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 16:10 - 16:20 People: Michel Zam, Jacek Urbanski, Tara Bogart

… for all. This lightning talk invites educators to embrace a perspective where …

Innovations and Opportunities in Liberal Arts Computing Education

Affiliated Events When: Wed 18 Feb 2026 13:00 - 18:00 People: Jakob Barnard, Grant Braught, Matthew Ferland, Olive Franzese, Amanda Holland-Minkley, Karl Schmitt, Andrea Tartaro, Jim Teresco

… and/or notes will be added to the Committee’s growing repository of materials. All

A Research Course to Develop AI Tools for K–12 Learning

Papers When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 11:00 - 11:20 People: Ismaila Temitayo Sanusi, Deepti Tagare, Fred Martin

… , and writeup; nearly all students gain their first introduction to educational research …

Fighting Fire with Fire: LLM-Assisted Grading of Handwritten CS Assessments

Papers When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 14:40 - 15:00 People: Jared Apillanes, Jason Weber, Sergio Gago-Masague, Jennifer Wong-Ma, Thomas Yeh

… % for exams and 25% for quizzes. Across all assessments, short answer questions showed …

A Structured Inventory of Tools to unveil Teachers' Computer Science Knowledge

Papers When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 11:00 - 11:20 People: Agnese Del Zozzo, Luca Lamanna, Violetta Lonati, Alberto Montresor

… eaching computer science (CS) at all school levels is an increasingly important issue that has recently attracted the attention of institutions and policymakers. However, there is a shortage of qualified teachers which highlights …

Encouraging Learning Through Repetition: Effects of Multiple Practice Opportunities in a Large Intro Programming Course

Papers When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 14:00 - 14:20 People: Jordan Elise Tate, Supriya Naidu

… with material across multiple contexts and time points, giving all students …

Rooms of Their Own: Structured Small-Group Learning in a Realtime Browser-Based IDE

Papers When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 14:00 - 14:20 People: Jacob Roberts-Baca, Joshua Delgadillo, Chris Piech

… collaboration. The contents of each group are visible to the instructors at all

Investigating Student Belonging, Engagement, and Self-Efficacy in Online and In-Person Learning Environments

Papers When: Sat 21 Feb 2026 11:00 - 11:20 People: Vijayalakshmi Ramasamy, Hagit Kornreich-Leshem, Maria Reid, Sharon Tuttle, Tiana Solis, Md Ali, Edward Jones, Peter J. Clarke

… initial findings from a student perception survey conducted across all

Exploring the Use of LLMs for Assessing Creativity in Student Programming Artifacts

Posters When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 10:00 - 12:00 People: Zifeng Liu, Yihan Jiang, Wanli Xing

… more scoring bias. Compared to a static rule-based baseline, all LLM strategies …

Fostering Accessible Design Skills with AI-Agents and Experiential Learning in Software Engineering Education

Posters When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 10:00 - 12:00 People: Farzana Rahman, Daniel Krutz

… and improve applications that are inclusive for all users. The AI agent-based …

Encouraging Student Use of AI in CS1: Rethinking Content, Delivery and Assessment

Posters When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 10:00 - 12:00 People: Stephen Hughes

… to all along. …

Evaluating LLaMA LLMs and Prompt Engineering for Educational Applications

Posters When: Fri 20 Feb 2026 10:00 - 12:00 People: Dhriti Ramesh

… accuracy (24.14% for 1B and 44.83% for 3B). Across all models, the average accuracy …

Barriers and Mitigations: Recruiting and Training CS Teachers in a Large Urban School District

Posters When: Thu 19 Feb 2026 10:00 - 12:00 People: Jeffrey Popyack, Brigitte Valesey, Tammy Pirmann, Daniel Moix

… The Philadelphia Researcher Practitioner Partnership (RPP) aims to bring equitable, inclusive, and high-quality computer science instruction aligned with educational standards to all Philadelphia students. This project brings researchers …