Conference Papers

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• Exploring the Effect of Quiz and Homework Submission Times on Students’ Performance in an Introductory Programming Course in a Flipped Classroom Environment [pdf]

          Leslie Harvey, Ashish Aggarwal (2021)                                                                                      American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE)

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• Opponent Hand Estimation in Gin Rummy Using Deep Neural Networks and Heuristic Strategies [pdf]

          Bhaskar Mishra, Ashish Aggarwal (2021)                                                                                  Educational Advancement in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI)

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• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Lab Practice in the Context of Prior Programming Experience in an Introductory Programming Course [pdf]

         Caleb O'Malley, Ashish Aggarwal (2020)                                                                                    American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE)

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• Evaluating the Use and Effectiveness of Ungraded Practice Problems in an Introductory Programming Course [pdf]                                                        Caleb O'Malley, Ashish Aggarwal (2020)                                                                           Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE)

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• Demonstrating the Ability of Elementary Students to Reason about Programs [pdf]                                                                                                            Ashish Aggarwal, David S. Touretzky, Christina Gardner-McCune (2018)                            ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)                                                                                                  

• Evaluating the Effect of using Physical Manipulatives to Foster Computational Thinking in Elementary School [pdf]

          Ashish Aggarwal, Christina Gardner-McCune, David S. Touretzky (2017)                                      ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)

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• Semantic Reasoning in Young Programmers [pdf]                                                             David S. Touretzky, Christina Gardner-McCune, Ashish Aggarwal (2017)                            ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)

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• Teaching 'lawfulness' with Kodu [pdf]                                                                     David S. Touretzky, Christina Gardner-McCune, Ashish Aggarwal (2016)                             ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)

Posters

  Ashish Aggarwal, David S. Touretzky, Christina Gardner-McCune (2016)                         ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)   

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• How do Quiz and Homework Submission Times Affect Students' Performance in a Flipped CS1 Class? [poster] [video]  

          Leslie Harvey, Ashish Aggarwal (2020)                                                                                                     ACM International Computing Education Research (ICER) 314

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• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Explicit Instruction in Reducing Program Reasoning Fallacies in Elementary Level Students  [poster]                             Ashish Aggarwal, David S. Touretzky, Christina Gardner-McCune (2019)                            ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE) 292

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• Neo-Piagetian Classification of Reasoning Ability and Mental Simulation to Lawfully Simulate Computational Rules in Microsoft’s Kodu Game Lab       Ashish Aggarwal (2017)  *(Second in the  Graduate Student Research Competition at ACM SIGCSE-2017, Seattle, WA)                                                                                           ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (SIGCSE)

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• Measuring and Assessing the Ability to Understand, Recognize and Construct Computational Rules in Elementary School using Microsoft Kodu’s Game Lab                                                                                                Ashish Aggarwal, Christina Gardner-McCune (2016)                                                     IEEE Research in Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology Conference (RESPECT)

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• Designing and Refining of Questions to Assess Students' Ability to Mentally Simulate Programs and Predict Program Behavior  [poster]