Call for Papers

We invite you to submit a paper, report, or poster for the 16th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education (WiPSCE 2021) and to join us in Erlangen, Germany.

Research in primary and secondary computing education is a young field with strong ties to national educational systems. Nevertheless, its theories, methods, and results are internationally applicable and of interest to researchers and practitioners in the field. WiPSCE aims at improving the exchange of research and practice relevant to teaching and learning in primary and secondary computing education, teacher training, and related research.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Learning: attitudes, beliefs, motivation, misconceptions, learning difficulties, student engagement with educational technology (e.g., visualization), conceptualization of computing
• Teaching: teaching approaches, teaching methods, teaching with educational technology
• Content: curricular aspects, learning standards, tools, educational approaches, context relevant teaching, assessment
• Institutional aspects: establishing and enhancing computing education, professional development

Submission Guidelines

Original submissions in all areas related to primary and secondary computing education are invited in the following categories:

• Full Paper (6-10 pages).

  Full papers must be submitted in one of two categories:

  • Empirical Research Paper: Unpublished, original, theoretically anchored research relevant to the topics of the workshop. Empirical research papers are expected to be of high quality and present novel arguments, syntheses, results, methods or tools.
  
  
  • Theoretical and Philosophical Research Paper: Unpublished, original, theoretically anchored research which includes dissemination and discussion of new ideas, theoretical analyses, or the proposition of an original theory relevant to the topics of the workshop.

• Short Paper (3-4 pages).

  Short papers are expected to present unpublished, original work in progress related to empirical or theoretical research relevant to the topics of the workshop. The title of the paper should end with "(Work in Progress)".

• Practical Report (4-6 pages).

  Practical reports describe unpublished, original projects in the field of "primary and secondary computing education" with an emphasis on practical experiences, e.g. evaluating a teaching intervention or curricular initiative. Reports are required to have a solid theoretical basis and need to reflect on the findings in order to contribute to the theory. Therefore, practical reports should clearly identify the relevance and importance to computing education as well as their contribution to concepts and theories in the field. The title of the paper should end with "(Practical Report)".

• Demo/Poster Abstract (2 pages). Demo/Poster abstracts should present emerging ideas for future research, teaching practice, or tools.

In exceptional circumstances only, we may invite the author of a submission that fails to meet the reviewing criteria in one category to present the submission in another category, if we think it is more appropriate in the latter category and we think the submission can be adjusted in a short period of time between notification of acceptance and final camera-ready submission. In other cases, the submission will simply be rejected.

For this reason, it is important to pick the best category for your paper from the outset.

Submission Format

Submissions are required to follow the standard ACM two-column format, in the tighter alternate stlye. The review process will be double-blind, so authors are requested not to include their names and affiliations when submitting and to cite their prior work appropriately.

It is mandatory to submit a PDF-file through EasyChair. Please see the Important Dates page for submission and notification deadlines.

When preparing the submission, please keep in mind the following ACM rules:

• ACM Templates

ACM has created a new LaTeX template and updated the existing Word templates. [...] They are to be used in conjunction with the ACM e-Rights System and the ACM CCS 2012 Author Support Tool found in the ACM Digital Library (See instructions under “Generate CCS Codes” top right of http://dl.acm.org/ccs.cfm).

• ACM e-Rights

When authors incorporate the code blocks generated by the ACM e-Rights system and by the CCS 2012 Author Support Tool in these the correct ACM Rights Statement and bibliographic strip automatically appear in the author’s paper along with the proper display of the CCS indexing terms chosen. (And a hidden block of XML encoding will also be incorporated in the source file for extraction use in the ACM Digital Library.)

• ACM Support

ACM has developed a new webpage which contains the new proceedings templates and CC2012 guide here: http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html/. In case of problems, please contact ACM’s TeX support team at Aptara (acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com).

Review Process and Publication

To ensure selection of high quality contributions, submissions for Full Papers are reviewed by at least three members of the international Program Committee. Short Paper submissions and Demo/Poster Abstracts are reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. Reviewing is double-blind. Once reviewing is complete, the reviewers (anonymously) discuss their reviews, particularly where there are significant differences of opinion. After the discussion phase, the program chairs use the reviews to determine a balanced and appropriate set of papers to be accepted.

Publication details to follow.

At least one author must register and present accepted papers in order for the paper to be included in the workshop proceedings.

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