WORKSHOP LEADERS

Sally Fincher is a Lecturer in the Computing Laboratory at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where she heads the Computers and Education Research Group. Sally holds a B.A. in Philosophy & Computer Science (University of Kent, UK) and an M.A. in English (Georgetown, Washington DC). Sally is Editor of Computer Science Education, jointly with Renee Macaulay. Her principal research areas are Computer Science Education and patterns and pattern languages, especially patterns for HCI. http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/saf/index.html

Marian Petre is a Reader in the Computing Department at the Open University and holds an Advanced Research Fellowship awarded by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Until recently, she was Director of the Centre for Informatics Education Research (CIER) at the Open University. Marian holds a B.A. in Psycholinguistics (Swarthmore College) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (University College London, UK). Her principal research areas are expert reasoning and representation in the design of computer systems, and Computer Science education. She lectures internationally on empirical methods. http://computing.open.ac.uk/Staff/

Sally and Marian have collaborated on a number of CS Education research projects. They recently collaborated on the Effective Projectwork in Computer Science (EPCoS) project, which resulted in the book Computer Science Projectwork: Principles and Pragmatics, published by Springer-Verlag. They have also worked together in running empirical methods tutorials and workshops and doctoral consortia in Europe and the US. Sally and Marian observe that the best research collaborations often start in the conference bar.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZER

Josh Tenenberg is an Associate Professor in the Computing and Software Systems program in the newly established Institute of Technology at the University of Washington, Tacoma. He joined UWT in 2000 from Indiana University South Bend, where he was the Associate Chair for Computer Science in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and was a member of the Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching. Josh holds a B.M. in Music (San Francisco State University), and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science (University of Rochester). His research interests have included automated planning and reasoning, reinforcement learning, and temporal logic. Recently, he has been investigating cognitive models of computer program comprehension, Computer Science Education, and critical theories of technology. Sally, Marian, and Josh have collaborated on the series of NSF-sponsored Bootstrapping Research in Computer Science Education workshops that they developed and on which the Scaffolding workshops are modeled.