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Dr. Vicki Almstrum

  • Asst Professor of Instruction at Computer Science, College of Science & Engineering

Scholarly and Creative Works

2006

  • Almstrum, V. L., Henderson, P. B., Harvey, V., Heeren, C., Marion, W., Riedesel, C., … Tew, A. E. (2006). Concept Inventories in Computer Science for the Topic Discrete Mathematics Working Group Report. In SIGCSE Bulletin (Vol. 38, pp. 132–145).
  • Almstrum, V. L. (2006). Men are from toys: women are from tools.

2005

  • Almstrum, V. L., Barker, L. J., Owens, B. B., Adams, E., Aspray, W., Dale, N. B., … Schwartzman, L. (2005). Building a Sense of History: Narratives and Pathways of Women Computing Educators Working Group Report. In Inroads – SIGCSE Bulletin, 37, 173–189.
  • Almstrum, V. L. (2005). What attracts women to CS?
  • Almstrum, V. L. (2005). Challenges to Computer Science Education Research. In SIGCSE Bulletin inroads (Vol. 37, p. 191).

2004

  • Almstrum, V. L. (2004). Computer Science Education Research as a Scientific Endeavor.
  • Almstrum, V. L. (2004). Issues in Software Engineering Education.

2003

  • Almstrum, V. L. (2003). What is the attraction to computing? Communications of the ACM, 46, 51–55.
  • Almstrum, V. L. (2003). Transfer to/from Computing Science Education: The Case of Science Education Research (pp. 303–304).

2002

  • Almstrum, V. L., Naps, T. L., Rößling, G., Dann, W., Fleischer, R., Hundhausen, C., … Velázquez-Iturbide, J. A. (2002). Exploring the role of visualization and engagement in computer science education, 131–152.
  • Almstrum, V. L. (2002). Import/Export to/from Computer Science Education Research: The Case for Mathematics Education. In Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference on innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (pp. 193-194.).
  • Almstrum, V. L. (2002). Women, mathematics, and computer science. In ACM SIGCSE Bulletin (1st ed., Vol. 34, pp. 131–132). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1145/3248189, https://doi.org/10.1145/326198

2001

  • Almstrum, V. L., McCracken, M., Diaz, D., Guzdial, M., Hagen, D., Kolikant, Y., … Wilusz, T. (2001). A multi-national, multi-institutional study of assessment of skills of first year CS students. SIGCSE Bulletin Inroads.
  • Almstrum, V. L. (2001). Interaction Factors in Software Development Performance in Distributed Student Groups. In Proceedings of ACM SIGCSE/SIGCUE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Education.
  • Almstrum, V. L. (2001). A Software Engineering Project Course at the University of Texas at Austin. FASE: Forum for Advancing Software engineering Education (Vol. 11).
  • Almstrum, V. L., Dean, C. N., Goelman, D., Hilburn, T., & Smith, J. (2001). Support for Teaching Formal Methods. SIGCSE Bulletin Inroads, 33, 71–88.

2000

  • Almstrum, V. L. (2000). An International Student/Faculty Collaboration: The Runestone Project. In SIGCSE Bulletin inroads (pp. 128–131).
  • Almstrum, V. L. (2000). Support for Teaching Formal Methods, Report of the ITiCSE 2000 Working Group on Formal Methods Education. Proceedings of ACM SIGCSE/SIGCUE.
  • Almstrum, V. L. (2000). An International Student/Faculty Collaboration: The Runestone Project.

1999

  • Almstrum, V. L. (1999). The Propositional Logic Test as a Diagnostic Tool for Misconceptions about Logical Operations. Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 18.
  • Almstrum, V. L. (1999). A Course with Service-Oriented Project Work, FASE: Forum for Advancing Software Engineering Education (Vol. 9).

1998

  • Almstrum, V. L. (1998). A Web Site to Support Computer Science Education as a Research Area. In SIGCSE Bulletin (Vol. 30, pp. 42a–45a).
  • Almstrum, V. L. (1998). Runestone, an International Student Collaboration Project.
  • Almstrum, V. L. (1998). Resources for Mentoring: Mentoring Definitions. In Science’s Next Wave.

1997

  • Almstrum, V. L. (1997). A Smorgasbord of Pedagogical Dishes.
  • Almstrum, V. L. (1997). Getting started in CS education research (pp. 375–376).

1996

  • Almstrum, V. L. (1996). Investigating student difficulties with mathematical logic. In N. Dean & M. Hinchey (Eds.), Teaching and Learning Formal Methods. Academic Press.
  • Almstrum, V. L., Petre, M., Dale, N., Berglund, A., Granger, M., Little, J. C., … Springsteel, F. (1996). Evaluation: turning technology from toy to tool: report of the working group on evaluation. Proceedings of the 1st SIGCSE/SIGCUE Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education, 201–217.

1994

  • Almstrum, V. L., Wu, C.-C., & Burton, D. (1994). A resource for research in Computer Science Education: The CSedRes Toolbox (p. 409). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1145/191029.191331

1993

  • Almstrum, V. L., & Wu, C.-C. (1993). The CSedRes toolbox: a resource to support research in computer science education. SIGCSE Bulletin, 25(4), 21–26. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1145/164205.164219
  • Almstrum, V. L., Borg, A., & Myers, J. P. (1993). Improving mentoring for women in computer science fields. In SIGCSE Bulletin (p. 540). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1145/170791.171173
  • Almstrum, V. L., Burton, D., & Wu, C.-C. (1993). Research methods in computer science education, 306. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1145/169070.170091

1992

  • Almstrum, V. L. (1992). A Hypercard–based aid for grading team projects.

1991

  • Almstrum, V. L., & Platt, D. C. (1991). Summary of post-symposium evaluations from 1991 SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. SIGCSE Bulletin, 23(4), 27–30. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1145/122697.122701
  • Almstrum, V. L. (1991). The Relationship between pre-college mathematics and the undergraduate Computer Science curricula. In SIGCSE Bulletin (Vol. 23, pp. 124–129). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1145/107004.107028