The CompEd 2019 Best Paper Award went to An Exploration of Cognitive Shifting in Writing Code by Ilenia Fronza, Arto Hellas, Petri Ihantola, and Tommi Mikkonen.

The CompEd 2019 Chairs’ Award for the best paper with a student as lead author went to Impact of Open-Ended Assignments on Student Self-Efficacy in CS1 by Sadia Sharmin, Daniel Zingaro, Lisa Zhang, and Clare Brett.

Congratulations to all!

Workshop Convener: Catherine Lang

ACM-W is a community within ACM whose mission is to support, celebrate, and advocate internationally for the full engagement of women in all aspects of the computing field.  ACM-W realizes this mission by providing a wide range of programs and services to ACM members and working in the larger community to advance the contributions of technical women.  The purpose of this interactive workshop is to familiarize attendees with the activities of ACM-W and to promote increased program activity in the countries of East Asia. The presenters will provide examples of successful efforts in regions such as Europe, Australia, and North America. The objective of the two workshops are to establish a development plan and a core group of participants willing to work together to start similar programs as the foundation members of ACM-W East Asia.

A total of 100 papers with 317 authors from 25 countries were submitted. There will be 33 papers presented at CompEd, from a total of 108 authors from 11 countries. 34% of authors were accepted.

Two of the top three papers (as ordered by reviewer average score) were from Chinese authors, and the other is from US authors. Almost 20% of accepted papers have a Chinese author which is wonderful given that CompEd is in China!

Below is a table of papers where at least one author is from the listed country, ordered by number of total submissions.

We hope that you can join us in Chengdu next month. If you can’t – please check out the proceedings when they are available!