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Overview

Raymond Lister is affiliated with the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. Their research focuses extensively on computer science with contributions spanning several subfields including computer science applications, information systems, human-computer interaction, software, and education.

Their primary areas of study cover topics such as software engineering research, gaze tracking and assistive technology, online learning and analytics, teaching and learning programming, software testing and debugging techniques, and educational assessment and pedagogy.

The scholar has published research in venues including Science of Computer Programming and ACM Transactions on Computing Education.

  • EMIP: The eye movements in programming dataset (2020) in Science of Computer Programming
  • Varying Program Input to Assess Code Reading Skills (2025) in ACM Transactions on Computing Education

Frequent collaborators in their work include Roman Bednarik, Teresa Busjahn, Agostino Gibaldi, Alireza Ahadi, and Mária Bieliková.

Best Publications

  • A multi-national study of reading and tracing skills in novice programmers

    Raymond Lister;Elizabeth S. Adams;Sue Fitzgerald;William Fone

  • Relationships between reading, tracing and writing skills in introductory programming

    Mike Lopez;Jacqueline Whalley;Phil Robbins;Raymond Lister

  • Not seeing the forest for the trees: novice programmers and the SOLO taxonomy

    Raymond Lister;Beth Simon;Errol Thompson;Jacqueline L. Whalley

  • An Australasian study of reading and comprehension skills in novice programmers, using the bloom and SOLO taxonomies

    Jacqueline L. Whalley;Raymond Lister;Errol Thompson;Tony Clear

  • Improving the Computational Thinking Pedagogical Capabilities of School Teachers

    Matt Bower;Leigh N. Wood;Jennifer W. M. Lai;Cathie Howe

  • Exploring Machine Learning Methods to Automatically Identify Students in Need of Assistance

    Alireza Ahadi;Raymond Lister;Heikki Haapala;Arto Vihavainen

  • A closer look at tracing, explaining and code writing skills in the novice programmer

    Anne Venables;Grace Tan;Raymond Lister

  • Introductory programming, criterion-referencing, and bloom

    Raymond Lister;John Leaney

  • Further evidence of a relationship between explaining, tracing and writing skills in introductory programming

    Raymond Lister;Colin Fidge;Donna Teague

  • Going SOLO to assess novice programmers

    Judy Sheard;Angela Carbone;Raymond Lister;Beth Simon

  • Concrete and other neo-Piagetian forms of reasoning in the novice programmer

    Raymond Lister

  • Predictors of success in a first programming course

    Simon;Sally Fincher;Anthony Robins;Bob Baker

  • Naturally occurring data as research instrument: analyzing examination responses to study the novice programmer

    Raymond Lister;Tony Clear;Simon;Dennis J. Bouvier

  • On blooming first year programming, and its blooming assessment

    Raymond Lister

  • First year programming: let all the flowers bloom

    Raymond Lister;John Leaney

  • Predicting student success using fine grain clicker data

    Leo Porter;Daniel Zingaro;Raymond Lister

  • Research perspectives on the objects-early debate

    Raymond Lister;Anders Berglund;Tony Clear;Joe Bergin

  • Students' Syntactic Mistakes in Writing Seven Different Types of SQL Queries and its Application to Predicting Students' Success

    Alireza Ahadi;Vahid Behbood;Arto Vihavainen;Julia Prior

  • The Canterbury QuestionBank: building a repository of multiple-choice CS1 and CS2 questions

    Kate Sanders;Marzieh Ahmadzadeh;Tony Clear;Stephen H. Edwards

  • What are we thinking when we grade programs

    Sue Fitzgerald;Brian Hanks;Raymond Lister;Renee McCauley

  • Objectives and objective assessment in CS1

    Raymond Lister

  • Exploring programming assessment instruments: a classification scheme for examination questions

    Judy Sheard;Simon;Angela Carbone;Donald Chinn

Frequent Co-Authors

Judy Kay
Judy Kay University of Sydney
Beth Simon
Beth Simon University of California, San Diego
Marian Petre
Marian Petre The Open University
Richard B. Thomas
Richard B. Thomas West Virginia University
William J. Collins
William J. Collins University of Reading
James Curran
James Curran University of Sydney
Orit Hazzan
Orit Hazzan Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Andrew Luxton-Reilly
Andrew Luxton-Reilly University of Auckland

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