Proceedings of the seventh international workshop on Computing education research

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Providence and to the Seventh International Computing Education Research Workshop, ICER 2011, sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education (SIGCSE). This year's workshop continues its tradition of being the premier forum for computing education research, from discussions of preliminary ideas to presentation of research results. The call for papers attracted 47 submissions. All papers were double-blind peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee. After reviewing, 18 papers (38%) were accepted for inclusion in the conference, written by authors from eight countries: Australia, Finland, Germany, New Zealand, the Philippines, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The papers span a wide variety of topics, including collaborative learning, informal learning, CS1, research design, general-education computing, tools to support learning, and the ways in which students choose to study computing and specialize within computing. The program also includes a keynote address by Eric Mazur of Harvard University discussing his work on peer instruction in physics education.