Beth Simon
Teaching Professor
(aka Lecturer with Security of Employment)
Computer Science and Engineering
Director, Center for Teaching Development
University of California, San Diego

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Teaching (class web pages on moodle)
 

CSE 3: Fluency in Information Technology
CSE 8A and CSE8AL : Introductory Programming in Java
CSE 8B: Introductory Programming in Java 1.5
CSE141 and CSE141L: Computer Architecture
CSE 290: CSE Seminar: Advanced Teaching Methods: Peer Instruction
CSE 599: Teaching Methods in Computer Science
CIRTL/CTD: The College Classroom

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

Education
  Ph.D. Computer Science, 2002.
   University of California, San Diego,
   Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

M.S. Computer Science, 1998.
   University of California, San Diego.

B.S. Computer Science and Spanish, summa cum laude, 1995.
   University of Dayton, Dayton, OH.

   

Contact Information
   bsimon@cs.ucsd.edu
   (858)534-5419
   (858)534-7029 (Fax)

Postal address:
   CSE Dept. 0404
   UCSD
   9500 Gilman Drive
   La Jolla, CA 92093-0404
              

Last modified: ~Jan 2007