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65
Citations
20675
World Ranking
2425
National Ranking
1214

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • 2014 - ACM Fellow For contributions to computing education, and broadening participation.
  • 2010 - ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award For their contributions to computing education, through the Media Computation (MediaComp) approach that they have created, supported, and disseminated, and its impact on broadening participation in computing.
  • 2009 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Mark Guzdial is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily centers on computer science, particularly within the areas of computer science applications and educational approaches. The main fields of study covered in their work fall under Computer Science, with subfields including Information Systems and Management, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's research topics include teaching and learning programming, educational assessment and improvement, educational games and gamification, online learning and analytics, mechatronics education and applications, statistics education and methodologies, and educator training and historical pedagogy.

Mark Guzdial has authored several recent papers, such as:

  • "U.S. states must broaden participation while expanding access to computer science education" (2020, Communications of the ACM)
  • "The information won't just sink in: Helping teachers provide technology-assisted data literacy instruction in social studies" (2022, British Journal of Educational Technology)
  • "Talking about race in CS education" (2020, Communications of the ACM)
  • ""I'm Not a Computer": How Identity Informs Value and Expectancy During a Programming Activity" (2020, ICLS)
  • "Putting a Teaspoon of Programming into Other Subjects" (2023, Communications of the ACM)

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Barbara Ericson, Kwame Porter Robinson, Audrey Bennett, Sarah Dunton, and Renee Fall.

Mark Guzdial publishes often in venues such as Communications of the ACM, arXiv (Cornell University), British Journal of Educational Technology, Policy Futures in Education, and ICLS.

Their book publication includes "Computational Thinking Education in K-12," published by The MIT Press in 2022.

Awards received by Mark Guzdial include:

  • ACM Fellow (2014) for contributions to computing education and broadening participation
  • ACM Distinguished Member (2014)
  • ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award (2010) for work on the Media Computation approach and its impact on broadening participation in computing
  • ACM Senior Member (2009)

Best Publications

  • Motivating Project-Based Learning: Sustaining the Doing, Supporting the Learning

    Phyllis C. Blumenfeld;Elliot Soloway;Ronald W. Marx;Joseph S. Krajcik

  • A multi-national, multi-institutional study of assessment of programming skills of first-year CS students

    Michael McCracken;Vicki Almstrum;Danny Diaz;Mark Guzdial

  • Learner-centered design: the challenge for HCI in the 21st century

    Elliot Soloway;Mark Guzdial;Kenneth E. Hay

  • Effective Discussion Through a Computer-Mediated Anchored Forum

    Mark Guzdial;Jennifer Turns

  • EducationPaving the way for computational thinking

    Mark Guzdial

  • Software‐Realized Scaffolding to Facilitate Programming for Science Learning

    Mark Guzdial

  • An evaluation of space-filling information visualizations for depicting hierarchical structures

    John Stasko;Richard Catrambone;Mark Guzdial;Kevin Mcdonald

  • Teaching the Nintendo generation to program

    Mark Guzdial;Elliot Soloway

  • A media computation course for non-majors

    Mark Guzdial

  • Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education: Research on Computing for Everyone

    Mark Guzdial

  • Motivation and nonmajors in computer science: identifying discrete audiences for introductory courses

    A. Forte;M. Guzdial

  • Information ecology of collaborations in educational settings: influence of tool

    Mark Guzdial

  • Beyond Adoption to Invention: Teacher-Created Collaborative Activities in Higher Education

    Mark Guzdial;Jochen Rick;Colleen Kehoe

  • A CS1 course designed to address interests of women

    Lauren Rich;Heather Perry;Mark Guzdial

  • Exploring hypotheses about media computation

    Mark Guzdial

  • Success in introductory programming: what works?

    Leo Porter;Mark Guzdial;Charlie McDowell;Beth Simon

  • Does contextualized computing education help

    Mark Guzdial

  • Developing a validated assessment of fundamental CS1 concepts

    Allison Elliott Tew;Mark Guzdial

  • The FCS1: a language independent assessment of CS1 knowledge

    Allison Elliott Tew;Mark Guzdial

  • Situating CoWeb: a scholarship of application

    Jochen Rick;Mark Guzdial

  • Computer Science Curriculum 2008: An Interim Revision of CS 2001

    Lillian Cassel;Alan Clements;Gordon Davies;Mark Guzdial

Frequent Co-Authors

John Stasko
John Stasko Georgia Institute of Technology
Richard Catrambone
Richard Catrambone Georgia Institute of Technology
Matthew J. Realff
Matthew J. Realff Georgia Institute of Technology
Janet L. Kolodner
Janet L. Kolodner Boston College
Elliot Soloway
Elliot Soloway University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ashwin Ram
Ashwin Ram Georgia Institute of Technology
Daniel A. Reed
Daniel A. Reed University of Utah
Beth Simon
Beth Simon University of California, San Diego
Amy Bruckman
Amy Bruckman Georgia Institute of Technology
Michael D. Byrne
Michael D. Byrne Rice University

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