We seek your submissions at CompEd 2023!
We cordially invite colleagues from around the world to present their work through the submission of papers, working groups, panels, and posters. The conference provides an environment for sharing, exchanging, and discussing new ideas related to computing education, at all levels of instruction.
Submissions may describe an educational research project, classroom experience, teaching technique, curricular initiative, or a tool used for computing education or computing education research.
Within the domain of computing education, submissions will cover specific educational subject matter, including but not limited to:
- pedagogies for enhancing learning in computing subject areas, such as programming, database systems, physical computing, or computer security;
- leveraging data and analytics to improve learning;
- use of technologies with specific application to computing education;
- approaches to peer learning and novel educational methods;
- social and global challenges in computing education;
- broadening participation and diversity;
- developing, implementing, or evaluating computing programs, curricula, and courses;
- approaches to group work or class infrastructure;
- teacher skills, teacher education, and teacher professional development.
All those considering an CompEd submission should read the Important information for authors.
CompEd 2023 will be an in-person conference. It is not anticipated that there will be facilities for either presenters or audience to attend virtually.
Details for each submission type can be found here:
- Call for papers
- Call for working groups
- Call for panels
- Call for posters
- Call for doctoral consortium
Read on for more details:
- Submission deadlines and page limits
- General submission details
- Formatting requirements
- Submission process
- Policies
Submission deadlines and page limits
| Pages | Abstract deadline* | Full deadline | Notification | |
| Paper* | 6 pages plus 1 page for references if required | Sunday, 7 May | Sunday, 14 May | Monday, 26 June |
| Working group | 2 pages | NA | Sunday, 14 May | Monday, 26 June |
| Panel | 2 pages | NA | Sunday, 14 May | Monday, 26 June |
| Poster | 1 page | NA | Sunday, 16 July | Monday, 7 August |
| Doctoral Consortium | 2 pages | Monday, 28 August | Tuesday, 5 September |
All deadlines are at the end of the specified day Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12)
Submissions to CompEd address aspects of computing education, that is, the education of students who are studying computing. CompEd generally does not accept papers about applications of computing technology in education generally or in other specific areas of education, such as the development of software to make it easier for students to learn chemistry.
Submissions in the Paper and Poster categories are to be anonymous, for dual-anonymous review. Anonymity is not required for any of the other submission types.
General submission details
Be sure that your submissions abide by the ACM Conflict of Interest Policy.
Be sure when making a submission that all authors are included. The ACM and CompEd are not generally receptive to changes in the author list once a submission has been accepted.
Documents submitted for review should be high quality, unpublished, original work. The official language of the conference is English, and submissions for review should be written in good academic English. The entire proceedings will be available in the ACM Digital Library.
Note that reviewers will assume they are reviewing completed works, as they will eventually appear in the conference proceedings. Do not submit incomplete drafts!
Page limits and deadlines for submissions are dependent upon the category of submission.
Electronic submission is required. All submissions must be PDF files. Where anonymous submissions are required, please check the settings of your converter so it does not inadvertently include your name and affiliation in the PDF file.
Formatting requirements
All submissions must adhere to the CompEd 2023 formatting instructions. Templates for submissions can be found at the ACM SIG Proceedings website.
The proceedings page incorporates two different approaches: the existing templates and the new workflow model. Please note that the new workflow model is ‘for specified conferences only’. CompEd 2023 is not one of the specified conferences, so submitting authors are required to use the existing templates: for Word authors, the ‘Interim template’; for LaTeX authors, acmart.cls version 1.88 as updated in November 2022, or a more recent update if provided, with the sigconf option. A LaTeX template can also be found on Overleaf. If you find that the template is producing a single-column format, it is likely that you are not using the sigconf option. A command near the beginning of your file should read \documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}
The interim Word template is not generally considered easy to use, and it can be difficult to coerce it to produce a paper that conforms to the requirements. Authors who use Microsoft Word should be prepared for a significant challenge in getting an accepted paper to conform with the requirements ready for inclusion in the proceedings. Some authors have decided that it is easier to (re)learn LaTeX and use the LaTeX template on Overleaf than to fight with the Word template.
The template permits various forms of draft document. Please do not use a form that overlaps a watermark with the text of the paper, as this makes the text very difficult for some people to read. In addition, if you use any form other than the expected two-column format, you will still be expected to conform with the specified page limits, as we have no clear way of estimating the properly formatted size of a submission that is not formatted as specified.
Submission process
Caution: submission deadlines are closer than they appear! Submitting the abstract is not as simple as uploading a file and clicking ‘Submit’. The review process requires a great deal of information in order to ensure that your submission receives the best possible review, and that information is gathered at the time of first submission. Authors are advised to allow at least half an hour when first submitting the paper.
If submitting a full paper, think carefully about which of the four categories it belongs in. There is no process for shifting submissions between categories: submissions will be reviewed by the guidelines of the category to which they are submitted, and if they do not fit well in that category, they are unlikely to be favourably reviewed.
Before making a submission, please be ready with the email addresses of all co-authors; when making the submission, please take particular care when entering the addresses. Email addresses are required, and every invalid email address, even for a non-corresponding author, generates a bounce message sent to the CompEd chairs. Please take the time to avoid this.
To submit your work, follow the link to the EasyChair submission page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comped2023
If you don’t already have an account, you will be prompted to create one. After logging in, you will find a submission form that requires you to enter the type, title, and abstract of your submission, plus contact information for all authors. Your submission must be in PDF format. The PDF file may be uploaded at the same time, or later. Both the information and the file may be updated at any time until the submission deadline.
You and all of your co-authors will receive email messages confirming the submission. Spam filters sometimes trap these automatically generated messages, so you may need to check your spam trap for confirmation and for any subsequent emails, including your notification of acceptance or rejection.
Policies
As a published ACM author, you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications policies (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/toc), including the policy on research involving human participants and subjects (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-participants-and-subjects).
See the CompEd policies page (https://comped.acm.org/comped-2023-policies/) for more information on these and other relevant policies.
Ethical status of data collection
Any submission that makes use of data from human participants (including student surveys, class results, educator interviews, published data sets, etc) must clearly indicate whether approval has been granted for the use of that data, by what authority (respecting anonymity in the version submitted for review), and what the approval covers. If the work includes any data from human participants that has not been granted approval, that should be clearly explained.
AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.)