Teaching

Fall 2011 Courses: CSE599: Teaching Methods in Computer Science Previous Courses: CSE 3 CSE 8A and CSE8AL CSE 8B CSE141 and CSE141L

Research Interests

Computer Science Education Research (especially multi-institutional research and institutional transformation) Peer Instruction and Educational Technology( Ubiquitous Presenter) Previously, compilers, computer architecture, performance programming, scientific computing.

Selected Recent Publications

Peer instruction: do students really learn from peer discussion in computing? Leo Porter, Cynthia Bailey Lee, Beth Simon, Daniel Zingaro In Seventh International Computing Education Research Workshop, August, 2011. Computing as the 4th "R": a general education approach to computing education Quintin Cutts, Sarah Esper, Beth Simon In Seventh International Computing Education Research Workshop, August, 2011. Experience report: a multi-classroom report on the value of peer instruction Leo Porter, Cynthia Bailey Lee, Beth Simon, Quintin Cutts, Daniel Zingaro In the 16th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, June, 2011. Full Publication List By Topic Debugging Commonsense Computing Exam Question/Assessment Studies Ubiquitous Presenter Other CS1-related Publications Other Publications