Proceedings of the fifth international workshop on Computing education research workshop

We welcome you to Berkeley and to the Fifth International Computing Education Research Workshop, ICER 2009, 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 presentation of contributions to the computing education research discipline. The call for papers attracted 24 submissions. All papers were double-blind peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee. After the reviewing, 13 papers (54%) were accepted for inclusion in the conference, written by authors across nine countries: Australia, Finland, Germany, Israel, New Zealand, Sweden, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The papers spanned a wide variety of topics, including tools and tool use; conceptions, preconceptions, and misconceptions; attitudes; collaborative learning; research categorization; teacher adaptation to new paradigms; and broad-scale adoption of CS innovation. The program also includes a keynote address by Marcia C. Linn outlining what recent research in the learning sciences might offer to computing education researchers and course designers.