Papers

All submissions related to computing education are welcome, at any stage of formal or non-formal education. Research areas of particular interest include:

• Discipline based education research about computing, computer science, and related disciplines
• Curricular aspects, learning standards, tools, educational approaches, context-relevant teaching, assessment
• Professional development for computing educators at all levels
• Design-based research, learner-centered design, and evaluation of educational technology supporting computing knowledge or skills development
• Non-formal learning experiences related to programming and software development (all ages), ranging from after-school programs for children, to end-user development communities, to workplace training of computing professionals
• Learning analytics and educational data mining in computing education contexts
• Learning sciences work in the computing content domain
• Measurement instrument development and validation (e.g., concept inventories, attitudes scales, etc) for use in computing disciplines
• Pedagogical environments fostering computational thinking
• Rigorous replication of empirical work, relevant to computing education, to compare with or extend previous empirical research results

Paper Format and Submission

Papers should be submitted in ACM double-column conference proceedings format. The page limit is six pages, not counting the references. The references may occupy a seventh page if the paper reaches the six-page limit. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings, and presented in a session at the conference.

Papers must be submitted in an anonymised form for double-blind review. As well as not including the author names, this means that your institution, any identifiable programme you refer to, acknowledgements, and funding sources should be anonymised. Any papers that are not anonymised will be returned to the authors and possibly desk rejected before review.

By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM's new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.

ACM has a strict policy against plagiarism. ACM defines plagiarism as the misrepresentation of another's writings, ideas, or other creative work (including unpublished and published documents, data, research proposals, computer code, or other forms of creative expression, including electronic versions) as one's own. Plagiarism is a clear violation of ACM Publications Policy and a potential violation of the ACM Code of Ethics.

Please ensure that you and your co-authors register for an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.

ACM Open enables all corresponding authors affiliated with your institution to publish their scholarly articles with ACM on a completely open access basis without needing to pay any individual article processing charges (APC) and continue to have access to the ACM Digital Library, a comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology. If the university or institution of the corresponding author is not already signed up to ACM Open then a processing charge will be levied. You should be aware of this before selecting your corresponding author. While you can include more than one corresponding author on your paper when submitting, once accepted you will have the opportunity to select one corresponding author who will be the contact person as we put together the proceedings for publication. Detailed guidance is available at: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance.