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Theory

Theory, particularly educational theory, can guide the development of a research study, provide a lens for the research and interpretation of results. CER can test existing educational theories and can help generate new theories.

The ICER 2021 Author Guidelines provide a discussion on how theory might be used in CER. Several recent papers have considered the use of theory in CER:

  • James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Michelle Craig, Paul Denny, Dastyni Loksa, and Lauren Margulieux. 2020. What Do We Think We Think We Are Doing? Metacognition and Self-Regulation in Programming. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER ‘20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2–13. DOI: https://doi-org.prox.lib.ncsu.edu/10.1145/3372782.3406263
  • Lauri Malmi, Judy Sheard, Päivi Kinnunen, Simon, and Jane Sinclair. 2019. Computing Education Theories: What Are They and How Are They Used? In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER ‘19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 187–197. DOI: https://doi-org.prox.lib.ncsu.edu/10.1145/3291279.3339409
  • Yasmin Kafai, Chris Proctor, and Debora Lui. 2019. From Theory Bias to Theory Dialogue: Embracing Cognitive, Situated, and Critical Framings of Computational Thinking in K-12 CS Education. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER ‘19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 101–109. DOI: https://doi-org.prox.lib.ncsu.edu/10.1145/3291279.3339400
  • Greg L. Nelson and Amy J. Ko. 2018. On Use of Theory in Computing Education Research. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER ‘18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 31–39. DOI: https://doi-org.prox.lib.ncsu.edu/10.1145/3230977.3230992
  • Alex Lishinski, Jon Good, Phil Sands, and Aman Yadav. 2016. Methodological Rigor and Theoretical Foundations of CS Education Research. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER ‘16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 161–169. DOI: https://doi-org.prox.lib.ncsu.edu/10.1145/2960310.2960328
  • Lauri Malmi, Judy Sheard, Simon, Roman Bednarik, Juha Helminen, Päivi Kinnunen, Ari Korhonen, Niko Myller, Juha Sorva, and Ahmad Taherkhani. 2014. Theoretical underpinnings of computing education research: what is the evidence? In Proceedings of the tenth annual conference on International computing education research (ICER ‘14). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 27–34. DOI: https://doi-org.prox.lib.ncsu.edu/10.1145/2632320.2632358
  • Josh Tenenberg. 2014. Asking Research Questions: Theoretical Presuppositions. ACM Trans. Comput. Educ. 14, 3, Article 16 (November 2014), 8 pages. DOI: https://doi-org.prox.lib.ncsu.edu/10.1145/2644924
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