The authors of all papers that may potentially be published at CompEd should have received notification that their papers have been “Provisionally Accepted”. To be fully accepted for publication, the paper should be revised to address reviewer feedback and correct issues in English expression, formatted according to the current ACM template, and updated in EasyChair by 7 Jan 2019. This updated paper should have complete author information (i.e., it is not anonymous), and should be the final “preprint” version. Additionally, a document explaining how the paper has been revised should be submitted through EasyChair. The program chairs will review the revisions to the paper with reference to the response to reviews. After the program chairs have checked the updated papers and approved the changes, the list of completed papers will be forwarded to the publishers who will subsequently contact authors with the copyright block information which will be needed for the camera-ready copy.
All papers should be revised prior to publication, taking carefully into account the reviewers’ comments, especially any that were highlighted by the metareviewer. For some papers, the metareview includes further comments from the program chairs, clearly labelled as such.
As you unblind and revise your paper, please prepare a document listing the reviewers’ suggestions and for each one explaining (briefly) how you have addressed it or why you have not addressed it. Note that failure to adequately address the reviewers’ feedback may result in acceptance of your paper being withdrawn.
The responses to reviewers should be sufficiently detailed to allow the program chairs to quickly identify the revisions to the paper, and how the feedback from the review process has informed the revision. For example:
Reviewer 1: I have already alluded to section 4.3. There seems to be an interest in pursuing Blooms taxonomy. However, there are a range of other taxonomies and some may be more appropriate (e.g. expertise hierarchies or SOLO). I would have liked to have seen this phrased more clearly as a future research question.
Response: Agreed. We have added a paragraph to the section on Future Work to address this issue. The additional text “[removed to retain anonymity, but present in the original response]” makes specific references to the use of both Bloom’s Taxonomy and the SOLO taxonomy, and how they have been used in Computing Education to analyse assessment.
In addition, many papers have problems with written expression that have not been explicitly noted by the reviewers. Please re-read your paper very carefully, and, if appropriate, have it checked by somebody who has not seen it before. Your paper will be better regarded if it is written well and clearly.
If in your paper you use the terms computer science and computer science education for what we do, you might consider instead using the terms computing and computing education. These terms are broader in scope, and tend to apply across more of the English-speaking world.
Please be sure that you are using the current ACM template; if you are not, your camera-ready paper will not be accepted for publication.
After revising your submission and completing your response to the reviewers, please return to the EasyChair site (easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comped2019). Click on View (the magnifying glass icon) to the right of the paper, and then Update file in the upper right. You will then be asked to upload the revised paper (as a pdf) and the review response (which can be pdf, doc, docx, or odt).
Your revised paper and review response must be submitted by 7 January 2019 at 23.59 Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). No extensions will be given. Kindly attend to your submission early if you have travel planned near the submission deadline. Papers not submitted on time will not be accepted to CompEd 2019.
Note that this will not be the absolutely final version of the paper, because it will not have the correct copyright information and DOI. Once the program chairs have checked (and hopefully approved) all of the revised papers, they will notify the publishers, who will then arrange for the authors to complete a rights review form and be sent the copyright information and DOI for their papers. Authors will then add this information to their papers and submit the final camera-ready version as directed by the publishers.