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Hilarie Nickerson
Researcher at University of Colorado Boulder
Publications - 10
Citations - 401
Hilarie Nickerson is an academic researcher from University of Colorado Boulder. The author has contributed to research in topics: Computational thinking & Game design. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 10 publications receiving 339 citations.
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Scalable Game Design: A Strategy to Bring Systemic Computer Science Education to Schools through Game Design and Simulation Creation
Alexander Repenning,David C. Webb,Kyu Han Koh,Hilarie Nickerson,Susan Miller,Catharine Brand,Ian Her Many Horses,Ashok Basawapatna,Fred Gluck,Ryan Grover,Kris D. Gutiérrez,Nadia Repenning +11 more
TL;DR: The Scalable Game Design curriculum is developed based on a strategy to integrate CS education into the regular school curriculum and an approach called Computational Thinking Pattern Analysis has been developed to measure and correlate computational thinking skills relevant to game design and simulations.
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The zones of proximal flow: guiding students through a space of computational thinking skills and challenges
TL;DR: A novel pedagogical framework is presented, which integrates Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development theory with Csikszentmihalyi's ideas about Flow, to provide students with appropriate challenges using a project-first based approach that aims to keep students in Flow.
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Real Time Assessment of Computational Thinking
TL;DR: The proposed REACT (Real Time Evaluation and Assessment of Computational Thinking) system is a first step toward allowing teachers to see which high-level concepts students have mastered and which ones they are struggling with as students code in real time.
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Beyond Minecraft: Facilitating Computational Thinking through Modeling and Programming in 3D
Alexander Repenning,David C. Webb,Catharine Brand,Fred Gluck,Ryan Grover,Susan Miller,Hilarie Nickerson,Muyang Song +7 more
TL;DR: The differences between 2D and 3D regarding three concepts connecting computer graphics to computer science education: ownership, spatial thinking, and syntonicity are discussed.
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Early validation of computational thinking pattern analysis
TL;DR: Initial data from this validation study indicates that CTPA correlates well with human grading and that it can even be used to predict students' future achievement levels given their current skill progression, making CTPA a potentially invaluable computational thinking evaluation tool for teachers.