ACM Transactions on Computing Education

Papers
(The median citation count of ACM Transactions on Computing Education is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Exploring Interest in Informatics with a Focus on K-12 Students’ Preferences in the Context of a Robotics Workshop188
Shifting Beliefs in Computer Science: Change in CS Student Mindsets104
Forging a Path: Faculty Interviews on the Present and Future of Computer Science Education in the United States78
Participatory Design as a Mechanism for Informing Interest-Driven Data Science Curriculum56
Examining the What, Why, and How of Multilingual Student Identity Development in Computer Science47
Exploring Identity in Relation to Influential Factors in CS142
Potential Factors for Retention and Intent to Drop-out in Brazilian Computing Programs40
Agile Social Software Engineer: An Empirical Approach to Mitigate and Manage Social Debts in Agile Environments36
Barriers and Supports to Offering Computer Science in High Schools: A Case Study of Structures and Agents33
Understanding the Impact of Peer Instruction in CS Principles Teacher Professional Development31
Combining Learning and Engagement Strategies in a Software Testing Learning Environment28
Grand Theories or Design Guidelines? Perspectives on the Role of Theory in Computing Education Research28
The Impact of a Community of Practice Scholarship Program on Students’ Computing Identity26
Contextualization, Authenticity, and the Problem Description Effect21
Developing a Holistic AI Literacy Framework for Children21
An Examination of Black Undergraduate Women's Intersectional Experiences and Academic Motivation in Computing Education21
Competency Models for Information Security and Cybersecurity Professionals: Analysis of Existing Work and a New Model19
Creativity in CS1: A Literature Review19
Characterizing Teacher Support of Debugging with Physical Computing: Debugging Pedagogies in Practice18
Responsible Computing: A Longitudinal Study of a Peer-led Ethics Learning Framework17
Teaching Ethics in Computing: A Systematic Literature Review of ACM Computer Science Education Publications17
A Realist Review of Undergraduate Student Attitudes towards Ethical Interventions in Technical Computing Courses17
Assessment of Code, Which Aspects Do Teachers Consider and How Are They Valued?17
CS=Me: Exploring Factors that Shape Black Women's CS Identity at the Intersections of Race and Gender17
Impact of UX Internships on Human-computer Interaction Graduate Students: A Qualitative Analysis of Internship Reports16
Exploring Gender Pairing in Programming Education: Impact on Programming Self-Efficacy and Collaboration Attitudes in a Developing Country's Rural Primary School16
LearnSQL: Impact of an Automatic Judge in Database Learning16
Computational Thinking and Notional Machines: The Missing Link16
“Robots Can Do Disgusting Things, but Also Good Things”: Fostering Children’s Understanding of AI through Storytelling16
Evaluating Teamwork Components in Large Undergraduate Software Engineering Teams15
Varying Program Input to Assess Code Reading Skills15
In the Black Mirror: Youth Investigations into Artificial Intelligence15
Debugging Pathways: Open-Ended Discrepancy Noticing, Causal Reasoning, and Intervening15
Introduction to the Special Issue on Justice-Centered Computing Education, Part 215
Relationship Between Implicit Intelligence Beliefs and Maladaptive Self-Regulation of Learning14
Metacognition and Self-Regulation in Programming Education: Theories and Exemplars of Use14
Toward a Competence Model for Graphical Modeling14
How do Swedish primary teachers introduce programming in their classrooms, and what strategies are used?14
Equity-based CS Case Study: An Approach to Exploring White Teachers’ Conceptions of Race and Racism in a Professional Development Setting13
How Do First-Year Engineering Students’ Emotions Change while Working on Programming Problems?13
A Qualitative Study of Experienced Course Coordinators’ Perspectives on Assessment in Introductory Programming Courses for Non-CS Majors13
Decoding Debugging Instruction: A Systematic Literature Review of Debugging Interventions12
Learning Theories Use and Relationships in Computing Education Research12
Affordances of Physical Objects in Computing Instruction from an Embodied Cognition Perspective12
Decoloniality, Digital-coloniality and Computer Programming Education11
Neurodivergent Legitimacy in Computing Spaces10
Bob or Bot: Exploring ChatGPT's Answers to University Computer Science Assessment10
Game Studio Simulator: Integrating Industry Practice and Formative Individual Assessment in Collaborative Game Development Capstone Projects10
Conceptualizing the Researcher-Theory Relation9
Identity in Higher Computer Education Research: A Systematic Literature Review9
Cross-Country Variation in (Binary) Gender Differences in Secondary School Students’ CS Attitudes: Re-Validating and Generalizing a CS Attitudes Scale9
The Benefits of Socially Responsible Computing in Early Computing Courses: A Multi-Institutional Study at Primarily Undergraduate Hispanic-Serving Institutions9
Improving the Assessment of Capstone Projects in the Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering9
AI MyData: Fostering Middle School Students’ Engagement with Machine Learning through an Ethics-Infused AI Curriculum8
Collaborative Methods and Study Motivation in CS1—A Systematic Literature Study8
Adaptive Assessment and Content Recommendation in Online Programming Courses: On the Use of Elo-rating7
Introduction to the Special Issue on Situating the Intersectional Experiences of Black Girls and Women in Computing & Technology7
Practitioner Perspectives on COVID-19’s Impact on Computer Science Education Among High Schools Serving Students from Lower and Higher Income Families7
Sustainability in Computing Education: A Systematic Literature Review7
Dual Process Theories: Computing Cognition in Context7
Validation of a Spanish-language Version of a Computer Programming Aptitude Test for First-year University Students7
Gender Bias in Self-Perception of AI Knowledge, Impact, and Support among Higher Education Students: An Observational Study7
Computing education’s superbug: interrogating the computer-mind metaphors7
Automated Grading and Feedback Tools for Programming Education: A Systematic Review7
CSM: A Code Style Model for Computing Educators6
Development and Analysis of Pre-service Teachers’ Self-efficacy in Integrating Computer Science Survey Instrument Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis6
A Review of Worked Examples in Programming Activities6
Recruiting Practices in Informal CS Learning6
Exploring the Use of Unplugged Gamification on Programming Learners’ Experience6
Factors That Predict K-12 Teachers' Ability to Apply Computational Thinking Skills6
Teacher Attitudes & Beliefs in Computer Science (T-ABC): Development & Validation of a Teacher Survey Instrument5
Teaching and Learning Domain Modeling through Collaboration Patterns: A Controlled Experiment5
Resources for Teaching Operating Systems: A Survey of Instructors and a Literature Review5
Influences of precollege out-of-school time computer science experiences on students’ career interest in computer science5
Analysis of Software Engineering Skills Gap in the Industry5
Computational Thinking and Epistemic Heterogeneity: A Critical Review of Music+Coding5
Multi-Institutional Study on Impostor Phenomenon5
An embodied sense of programming: an anti-ableist framework for the analysis of learners’ developing senses of programming5
Effects of task-oriented courses conducted outside the classroom via robotics simulation on design thinking, individual creativity and self-regulation5
Tracing Participation Beyond Computing Careers: How Women Reflect on Their Experiences in Computing Programs4
Editorial: Conceptualizing and Using Theory in Computing Education Research4
Preparing Elementary Preservice Teachers to Integrate Computational Thinking in the Curriculum4
Retaining Black Women in Computing: A Comparative Analysis of Interventions for Computing Persistence4
Why Students Cannot Easily Integrate Component Skills: An Investigation of the Composition Effect in Programming4
Automatic Feedback Generation for the Learning of Regular Expressions4
Faculty, Student, and Community Partner Experiences in Computer and Information Science Service Learning4
Impacts of an Industrial Partnership with a Historically Black University on the Computing Career Decisions of Black Undergraduate Students4
‘If you can’t dance your program, you can’t write it’: Challenges and Implications for AI in Education4
Equity and Inclusion through UDL in K-6 Computer Science Education: Perspectives of Teachers and Instructional Coaches4
Views on Teaching and Learning Preferences for Women and Men in Undergraduate Computer Science4
Novice Perceptions on Effective Elements of PostgreSQL Error Messages3
Rethinking Computing Students’ Help Resource Utilization through Sequentiality3
From One Language to the Next: Applications of Analogical Transfer for Programming Education3
An Automated Marker for Computer–Human Interaction ‘MarCHIr’: Assessment of Creative Web Prototypes3
A Systematic Review of the Literature on CS Outreach Activities for Girls3
We Need to Fix Secondary School Computer Science3
How do Computer Science Students Make Decisions in Ethical Situations? Implications for Teaching Computing Ethics based on a Grounded Theory Study3
Outsiders Within: How Do Black Girls Fit into Computer Science for All?3
Learning Environment for Ill-Structured Design Problem-Solving in a Data Structures Course3
Reflections on Theory3
Expert Perspectives on Student Errors in SQL3
Teaching the Bubble Sort Algorithm Using CS Unplugged Activities at the K-12 Level2
Student-Centered Computing: Teacher Experiences in a New Introductory Computer Science Curriculum2
From Servers to Satellites: Understanding Internet Principles among New Computer Science Teachers2
Identifying Difficult Questions and Student Difficulties in a Spanish Version of a Programming Assessment Instrument (SCS1)2
Introduction to the Special Section on Justice-Centered Computing Education, Part 12
Professional Development in Computational Thinking: A Systematic Literature Review2
A Survey on Feedback Types in Automated Programming Assessment Systems2
Global Manager: A Serious Game to Raise Awareness of the Challenges of Being a Project Manager in Global Software Development2
Educating Students about Programming Plagiarism and Collusion via Formative Feedback2
Topical Analysis of Programming Education Research Literature2
Disrupting Computing Education: Teen-Led Participatory Design in Libraries2
Voices of Elementary Computer Science Teachers: Computer Science Integration Rationales and Practices2
Elementary Computational Thinking Instruction and Assessment: A Learning Trajectory Perspective2
Public Computing Intellectuals in the Age of AI Crisis2
Gender Diversity in Computer Science at a Large Public R1 Research University: Reporting on a Self-study2
A Research-Practice Partnership to Introduce Computer Science in Secondary School: Lessons from a Pilot Program2
20-Years Later: A Replication Study on Teaching CS1 Concepts2
Notional machines: Retrieving background practices of perception and action2
A Dialog About the Special Issues on Theory2
A Model of How Students Engineer Test Cases With Feedback2
Evaluating ChatGPT-4 Vision on Brazil's National Undergraduate Computer Science Exam2
Assessing the Effect of Programming Language and Task Type on Eye Movements of Computer Science Students2
Pyrates: Design and Evaluation of a Serious Game Aimed at Introducing Python Programming and Easing the Transition from Blocks2
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