Publications

Benjamin Xie (2021). How data can support equity in computing education. XRDS.

Amy J. Ko, Alannah Oleson, Neil Ryan, Yim Register, Benjamin Xie, Mina Tari, Matthew Davidson, Stefania Druga, Dastyni Loksa (2020). It Is Time for More Critical CS Education. CACM.

Viktoria Pammer-Schindler, Erik Harpstead, Benjamin Xie, Betsy DiSalvo, Ahmed Kharrufa, Petr Slovak, Amy Ogan, Joseph Jay Williams, Michael Lee (2020). Learning and education in HCI: a reflection on the SIG at CHI 2019. Interactions.

Benjamin Xie, Greg L Nelson, Harshitha Akkaraju, William Kwok, Amy J Ko (2020). The Effect of Informing Agency in Self-Directed Online Learning Environments. Proceedings of the Seventh (2020) ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale.

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Dastyni Loksa, Benjamin Xie, Harrison Kwik, Amy J Ko (2020). Investigating Novices' In Situ Reflections on Their Programming Process. Proceedings of the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Research Track.

Greg L Nelson, Benjamin Xie, Andrew Hu, Amy J Ko (2019). Towards a validated formative assessment for language-specific program tracing skills. Koli Calling.

Benjamin Xie, Erik Harpstead, Betsy DiSalvo, Petr Slovak, Ahmed Kharrufa, Michael J Lee, Viktoria Pammer-Schindler, Amy Ogan, Joseph Jay Williams (2019). Learning, Education, and HCI. Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Benjamin Xie, Matthew J Davidson, Min Li, Amy J Ko (2019). An Item Response Theory Evaluation of a Language-Independent CS1 Knowledge Assessment. Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.

Benjamin Xie, Dastyni Loksa, Greg L Nelson, Matthew J Davidson, Dongsheng Dong, Harrison Kwik, Alex Hui Tan, Leanne Hwa, Min Li, Amy J Ko (2019). A theory of instruction for introductory programming skills. Computer Science Education.

Harrison Kwik, Benjamin Xie, Amy J Ko (2018). Experiences of Computer Science Transfer Students. Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research.

Benjamin Xie, Greg L Nelson, Amy J Ko (2018). An Explicit Strategy to Scaffold Novice Program Tracing. 2018 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.

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Greg L Nelson, Benjamin Xie, Amy J Ko (2017). Comprehension First: Evaluating a Novel Pedagogy and Tutoring System for Program Tracing in CS1. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research.

Benjamin Xie, Hal Abelson (2016). Skill progression in MIT app inventor. 2016 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC).

Benjamin Xie (2016). Progression of computational thinking skills demonstrated by App Inventor users. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Benjamin Xie, Isra Shabir, Hal Abelson (2015). Measuring the Usability and Capability of App Inventor to Create Mobile Applications. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Programming for Mobile and Touch.