Recent Submissions

  • Models for computer science teacher preparation: Developing teacher knowledge 

    Yadav, Aman; Connolly, Cornelia; Berges, Marc; Chytas, Christos; Franklin, Crystal; Hijón-Neira, Raquel; Leftwich, Anne; Marguliex, Lauren; Macann, Victoria; Warner, Jayce R. (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022-07-07)
    Across the globe, Computer Science Education has grown tremendously over the past decade to teach primary and secondary students computing ideas and tools. From integrating computational thinking in disciplines to teaching ...
  • Computer science education in Ireland: Capacity, access and participation 

    Kirwan, Colette; Connolly, Cornelia (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022-07-07)
    Our world is both physical and digital. Students would benefit from understanding how this digital world works, and how algorithms drive it [2]. Students would also benefit from learning computational thinking, and ...
  • Mapping the landscape: Peer review in computing education research. 

    Petre, Marian; Sanders, Kate; McCartney, Robert; Ahmadzadeh, Marzieh; Connolly, Cornelia; Hamouda, Sally; Harrington, Brian; Lumbroso, Jérémie; Maguire, Joseph; Malmi, Lauri; McGill, Monica M.; Vahrenhold, Jan (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020-06-17)
    Peer review is a mainstay of academic publication indeed, it is the peer-review process that provides much of the publications credibility. As the number of computing education conferences and the number of submissions ...
  • Using real data in a quantitative methods course to enhance teachers and school leaders statistical literacy 

    Heinz, Manuela (International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd), 2020-06-02)
    Engaging part-time Master of Education students in the study of quantitative research methods is challenging. The majority of them lead busy lives as teachers and/or education leaders, attend their MEd classes in the ...
  • Interrogating dilemmas in the primary level science classrooms in Ireland: Outreach and education 

    Martins Gomes, Diogo; McCauley, Veronica (NUI GalwayInfonomics Society, 2012-04-16)
    In this day and age, science has become economically very important. The European Union (EU) and different EU countries, such as Ireland, stress that science and technology graduates are fundamental for economical ...
  • Retention initiatives for ICT based courses 

    Connolly, Cornelia; Murphy, Eamonn (IEEE, 2005-10-19)
    Unlike our European neighbours, Ireland failed to develop its educational system in the immediate postwar years and it was only in 1967 that second-level education was provided free to all citizens. Since 1970, the educational ...
  • Everyday creativity on a university campus: crafting a challenge to journey beyond the formal 

    McHugh, Sally; Concannon, Fiona; Hall, Tony (NUI Galway, 2017-08-23)
    This paper reports on an initiative to encourage staff, students and the wider community of an Irish university to engage in open, daily creative challenges, mediated by technology. The aim was to encourage creativity as ...
  • An straitéis litearthachta in iar-bhunscoileanna lán-Ghaeilge: Cad is ciall le litearthacht san earnáil seo agus cad iad na dúshláin? 

    Mac Mahon, Brendan; Ó Grádaigh, Seán; Ní Ghuidhir, Sinéad (An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta, 2016-05-15)
    ACHOIMRE Aithnítear in An Straitéis Náisiúnta chun an Litearthacht agus an Uimhearthacht a Fheabhsú i measc Leanaí agus Daoine Óga 2011-20 (An Roinn Oideachais agus Scileanna, 2011:12) go bhfuil dúshláin ar leith “do ...