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Publications by Prof Sally Fincher

Publication period   (7/1996 onwards)   -   ordered by publication type and date

Books

• A commons leader's vade mecum. Sally Fincher and Josh Tenenberg. University of Kent Press, July 2011.
• Studying programming. Sally Fincher and the Computing Education Research Group. Palgrave Study Guides. Palgrave Macmillan, January 2006.
• People and Computers XVIII: Design for Life. Sally Fincher, Panos Markopoulos, David Moore, and Roy Ruddle. Springer-Verlag, September 2004.
• Computer science education research. Sally Fincher and Marian Petre. Routledge Falmer, January 2004.
• Computer science project work: Principles and pragmatics. Sally Fincher, Marian Petre, and Martyn Clark. Springer-Verlag, January 2001.
• Projects in the computing curriculum. Mike Holcombe, Andy Stratton, Sally Fincher, and Gary Griffiths. Springer-Verlag, July 1998.

Journal Papers

• Representing practice: practice models, patterns, bundles …. Isobel Falconer, Janet Finlay, and Sally Fincher. Learning, Media and Technology, 36(2):101-127, April 2011.
• Machines for Thinking. Sally Fincher and Ian Utting. ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE), 10(4), November 2010.
• Pux: Patterns of user experience. Alan Blackwell and Sally Fincher. Inteactions, XVII(2):27-32, March 2010.
• Using theory to inform capacity-building: Bootstrapping communities of practice in computer science education research. Sally Fincher and Josh Tenenberg. Journal of Engineering Education, 95(4):265-278, October 2006.
• Making sense of card sorting data. Sally Fincher and Josh Tenenberg. Expert Systems, 22(3):89-93, July 2005.
• A multi-institutional, multi-national study of programming concepts using card sort data. Kate Sanders, Sally Fincher, Dennis Bouvier, Gary Lewandowski, Briana Morrison, Laurie Murphy, Marian Petre, Brad Richards, Josh Tenenberg, and Lynda Thomas. Expert Systems, 22(3):121-128, July 2005.
• Students designing software: a multi-national, multi-institutional study. Josh Tenenberg, Sally Fincher, Ken Blaha, Dennis Bouvier, Tzu-Yi Chen, Donald Chinn, Stephen Cooper, Anna Eckerdal, Hubert Johnson, Robert McCartney, and Alvaro Monge. Informatics in Education, 4(1):143-162, May 2005.
• Perspectives on HCI patterns: concepts and tools (introducing PLML). Sally Fincher. Interfaces, (56):26-28, September 2003.
• Usability pattern language: Creating a community. Jan O. Borchers, Sally Fincher, Richard Griffiths, Lyn Pemberton, and Elke Siemon. AI & Society Journal of Human-Centred Systems and Machine Intelligence, 15(4):377-385, December 2001.
• Models and Areas for CS Education Research. M. Clancy, J. Stasko, M. Guzdial, S. Fincher, and N. Dale. Computer Science Education, 11(4):323-341, December 2001.
• Teaching communication protocols. John Derrick and Sally Fincher. Computer Science Education, 10(3):195-202, December 2000.
• Analysis of design: An exploration of patterns and pattern languages for pedagogy. Sally Fincher. Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching: Special Issue CS-ED Research, 18(3):331-348, December 1999.
• The peer review process of teaching materials. Deborah Knox, Sally Fincher, Nell Dale, Elizabeth Adams, Don Goelman, James Hightower, Ken Loose, and Fred Springsteel. SIGCSE Bulletin, 31(4):87-100, December 1999.
• Putting it all together: a pattern language for interaction design. Elisabeth Bayle, Rachel Bellamy, George Casaday, Thomas Erickson, Sally Fincher, Beki Grinter, Ben Gross, Diane Lehder, Hans Marmolin, Brian Moore, and Colin Potts. SIGCHI Bulletin, 30(1):17-24, January 1998.

Book Chapters

• Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education in Information Technology. Tony Clear, Gwyn Caxton, Simon Thompson, and Sally Fincher. In Richard Coll and Karsten Zegwaard, editors, Integrated Handbook for Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education, pages 141-150. World Associate of Cooperative Education, Inc., second edition, November 2011.
• Useful sharing. Sally Fincher. In Iain Hay, editor, Inspiring Academics: Learning with the World's Great University Teachers, chapter 22, pages 191-197. Open University Press, March 2011.
• Cooperative education in information technology. Sally Fincher, Tony Clear, Krassie Petrova, Katharine Hoskyn, Roanne Birch, Gwyn Claxton, and Malcolm Wieck. In Richard K Coll and Chris Eames, editors, International Handbook for Cooperative Education, pages 111-123. WACE, May 2004.
• Networking. Sally Fincher. In Carole Baume, Paul Martin, and Mantz Yorke, editors, Managing Educational Development Projects: Effective Management for Maximum Impact, Staff and Educational Development Series, chapter 3, pages 37-45. Kogan Page, October 2002.
• Computer science: the discipline network and the metanet. Sally Fincher. In Stephen McNair, editor, Developing Disciplines the experience of the Discipline Networks Programme 1995-98, pages 13-19. Department for Education and Employment, December 1998.
• Learning from other disciplines: pedagogic models within computer science and from elsewhere. Sally Fincher. In Fred Mulder and Tom van Weert, editors, Informatics in Higher Education Views on informatics and non-informatics curricula, pages 231-234. Chapman & Hall, August 1998.
• Using other people's experience of project work: Realising fitness for purpose. Marian Petre and Sally Fincher. In Mike Holcombe, Andy Stratton, Sally Fincher, and Gary Griffiths, editors, Projects in the Computing Curriculum, pages 19-30. Springer-Verlag, July 1998.

Conference Papers

• Repositories of teaching material and communities of use: nifty assignments and the greenroom. Sally Fincher, Michael Kölling, Ian Utting, Neil Brown, and Phil Stevens. In Proceedings of the Sixth international workshop on Computing education research, pages 107-114. ACM SIGCSE, August 2010.
• The Scholarship of Cockfighting. Sally Fincher and Josh Tenenberg. In The London Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) 8th International Conference, May 2010.
• Stepping stones: Capacity building in engineering education. Arnold Pears, Sally Fincher, Robin Adams, and Mats Daniels. In 38th Annual Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, page T3F, October 2008.
• Dcer: sharing empirical computer science education data. Kate Sanders, Brad Richards, Jan Erik Moström, Vicki Almstrum, Stephen Edwards, Sally Fincher, Kat Gunion, Mark Hall, Brian Hanks, and Stephen Lonergan. In Proceedings of the fourth international workshop on Computing Education Research (ICER), pages 137-148. ACM, August 2008.
• Re-shaping practices of academic development: The disciplinary commons. Sally Fincher and Josh Tenenberg. Society for Research into Higher Education, December 2007.
• Warren's question. Sally Fincher and Josh Tenenberg. In Proccedings of third International Computing Education Research Workshop (ICER), pages 51-60. SIGCSE, ACM, September 2007.
• Opening the door of the computer science classroom: The Disciplinary Commons. Josh Tenenberg and Sally Fincher. In Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE Symposium on Computer Science Education, pages 514-518, March 2007.
• Multi-institutional computer science educational research: A review of recent studies of novice understanding. Beth Simon, Raymond Lister, and Sally Fincher. In in Proceedings of the 36th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, pages SE412-17, October 2006.
• Laboratory exams in first programming courses. Quintin Cutts, David Barnes, Pete Bibby, James Bown, Vicky Bush, Phil Campbell, Sally Fincher, Stephan Jamieson, and Tony Jenkins. In Proceedings of 7th Annual Conference of the ICS HE Academy, pages 224-229, August 2006.
• Some good ideas from the disciplinary commons. Sally Fincher, David Barnes, Pete Bibby, James Bown, Vicky Bush, Phil Campbell, Quintin Cutts, Stephan Jamieson, Tony Jenkins, and Michael Jones. In Proceedings of 7th Annual Conference of the ICS HE Academy, pages 153-158, August 2006.
• Building and assessing capacity in engineering education research: the bootstrapping model. Josh Tenenberg and Sally Fincher. In ASEE Annual conference and exposition, June 2006.
• Multi-institutional teaching communities in computing education. Sally Fincher, Raymond Lister, Arnold Pears, Judy Sheard, Josh Tenenberg, and Alison Young. In Denise Tolhurst and Samuel Mann, editors, Proceedings of the Eighth Australiasian Computing Education Confernece (ACE 2006), pages 7-10, January 2006.
• The ability to articulate strategy as a predictor of programming skill. Simon, Quintin Cutts, Sally Fincher, Patricia Haden, Anthony Robins, Ken Sutton, Bob Baker, Ilona Box, Michael de Raadt, John Hamer, Margaret Hamilton, and Raymond Lister. In Denise Tolhurst and Samuel Mann, editors, Proceedings of the Eighth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2006), pages 181-188, January 2006.
• Predictors of success in a first programming course. Simon, Sally Fincher, Anthony Robins, Bob Baker, Ilona Box, Quintin Cutts, Michael de Raadt, Patricia Haden, John Hamer, Margaret Hamilton, and Raymond Lister. In Denise Tolhurst and Samuel Mann, editors, Proceedings of the Eighth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2006), pages 189-197, January 2006.
• Do map drawing styles of novice programmers predict success in programming? A multi-national, multi-institutional study. Denise Tolhurst, Bob Baker, John Hamer, Ilona Box, Quintin Cutts, Michael de Raadt, Sally Fincher, Patricia Haden, Margaret Hamilton, and Raymond Lister. In Denise Tolhurst and Samuel Mann, editors, Proceedings of the Eighth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2006), pages 213-228, January 2006.
• Multi-institutional, multi-national studies in CSEd research: Some design considerations and trade-offs. Sally Fincher, Raymond Lister, Tony Clear, Anthony Robins, Josh Tenenberg, and Marian Petre. In Proceedings of the First International Computing Education Research Workshop, ICER'05, pages 111-121. SIGCSE, ACM, September 2005.
• Approaches to learning in computer programming. M. de Raadt, M. Hamilton, R. Lister, J. Tutty, B. Baker, I. Box, Q. Cutts, S. Fincher, J. Hamer, P. Haden, M. Petre, A. Robins, and Simon. In Annual International Conference of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA), pages 407-414, July 2005.
• Computer Science Education Research as a Scientific Endeavor. Vicki Almstrum, Sally Fincher, Renee McCauley, and Suzanne Westbrook. In Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, October 2004.
• A multi-national, multi-institutional study of student-generated software designs. Sally Fincher, Marian Petre, Josh Tenenberg, Ken Blaha, Dennis Bouvier, Tzu-Yi Chen, Donald Chinn, Stephen Cooper, Anna Eckerdal, Hubert Johnson, and Robert McCartney. In 4th Finnish/Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education, pages 1-8, October 2004.
• Developing engineering education research questions: What do they look like? How do I get one?. Sally Fincher and Robin Adams. In Frontiers in Education, October 2004.
• A multi-national, multi-institutional study of student-generated software. Sally Fincher, Marian Petre, Josh Tenenberg, Ken Blaha, Dennis Bouvier, Tzu-Yi Chen, Donald Chinn, Stephen Cooper, Anna Eckerdal, and Hubert Johnson. In Ari Korhonen and Lauri Malmi, editors, Kolin Kolistelut - Koli Calling Proceedings, pages 20-28, September 2004.
• BRACE yourself: CS education research is coming. P. Haden, S. Fincher, and M. Petre. In Proceedings of 17th NACCQ conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, pages 277-280, July 2004.
• Five myths of assessment. Mats Daniels, Anders Berglund, Arnold Pears, and Sally Fincher. In Raymond Lister and Alison L. Young, editors, Computing Education 2004 Sixth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2004), volume 26 of Australian Computer Science Communications, January 2004.
• Pedagogical patterns: their place in the genre. Sally Fincher and Ian Utting. In Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education, pages 199-202, June 2002.
• Patterns for HCI and Cognitive Dimensions: two halves of the same story?. Sally Fincher. In Jasna Kuljis, Lynne Baldwin, and Rosa Scoble, editors, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group, pages 156-172, June 2002.
• Serendipity in the engineering curriculum. Sally Fincher and Keith Mander. In Proceedings of the ICEE 2001 conference, August 2001.
• From transfer to tranformation: towards a framework for successful dissemination of engineering education. Sally Fincher. In Frontiers in Education Conference, page F4F, October 2000.
• Teams work (panel session). Louise Moses, Sally Fincher, and James Caristi. In Proceedings of the 31st SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pages 421-422, March 2000.
• What are we doing when we teach programming?. Sally Fincher. In Frontiers in Education '99, pages 12a41-5. IEEE, November 1999.
• Meeting diverse user needs: Implementation of a departmental information strategy. Richard Jones, David Beckett, and Sally Fincher. In Stephen D. Franklin and Ellen Strenski, editors, International Working Conference on Building University Electronic Educational Environments, pages 125-139. IFIP WG3.2/3.6, Kluwer, August 1999.
• Evaluating a joint international project in disjunct courses. M Daniels and S A Fincher. In Joanna Daudt and Otto Rompelman, editors, What have they learned? Assessment of Student Learning in Higher Education, pages 139-144. European Society for Engineering Education, SEFI, April 1999.
• Project-based learning practices in computer science education. Sally Fincher and Marian Petre. In 1998 FiE Conference, pages 1185-1191. IEEE, November 1998.
• Entraining students in professional issues: challenging their structures of knowledge. Sally Fincher and Ian Utting. In 6th Improving Student Learning Symposium: Improving Student Learning Outcomes, September 1998.
• Beyond anecdote towards real transfer: Using other institutions' experience of project work. Sally Fincher and Marian Petre. In 6th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Computer and 3rd Annual conference on Inegrating Technology into Computer Science Education: Changing the Delivery of Computer Science Education, pages 86-89. CTI/CTC and ACM SIGCSE, August 1998.
• Effective projectwork in computer science: Project epcos. Sally Fincher. In Mette Knudsen and Torben "Sopper" Vinther, editors, Project Work in University Studies, volume 2, pages 195-203. Roskilde University, Denmark, September 1997.
• Introductory Problem Solving in Computer Science. David J. Barnes, Sally Fincher, and Simon Thompson. In Goretti Daughton and Patricia Magee, editors, 5th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Computing, pages 36-39, Centre for Teaching Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland, August 1997.
• Learning from other disciplines: pedagogic models within computer science and from elsewhere. Sally Fincher. In Informatics (Computer Science) as a discipline and in other disciplines: what is in common?. IFIP WG 3.2, August 1997.
• Supporting the supervisors. S.A. Fincher and D.C. Bateman. In Rory O'Connor and Sylvia Alexander, editors, 4th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Computing: Providing Quality Computer Science Education, pages 227-230. Centre for Teaching Computing, Dublin City University, August 1996.
• A comparative evaluation of internet use for discipline networks. David Bateman and Sally Fincher. In A. Behrooz, editor, Knowledge Transfer '96, pages 296-300. Pacific and Middle East Centre for Research, July 1996.

Miscellaneous

• Programmed to succeed?: A multi-national, multi-institutional study of introductory programming courses. Sally Fincher, Bob Baker, Ilona Box, Quintin Cutts, Michael de Raadt, Patricia Haden, John Hamer, Margaret Hamilton, Raymond Lister, and Marian Petre et al. Technical Report 1-05, University of Kent, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK, April 2005.
• Cause for alarm?: A multi-national, multi-institutional study of student-generated software designs. S Fincher, M Petre, J Tenenberg, K Blaha, and D Bouvier et al. Technical Report 16-04, University of Kent, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, September 2004.
• "My Criterion is: Is it a Boolean?": A card-sort elicitation of students' knowledge of programming constructs. Marian Petre, Sally Fincher, and Josh Tenenberg et al. Technical Report 6-03, University of Kent, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK, June 2003.
• Naive tools for studying compilation histories. Matthew C. Jadud and Sally A. Fincher. techreport 3-03, University of Kent, Computing Laboratory, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF, March 2003.
• Portrait of 2000/01 Part I Assessments, Part 1: Statistical Analysis. Janet Carter, Jill Tardivel, Sally Fincher, Ursula Fuller, Colin Johnson, Janet Linington, and Ian Utting. Technical Report 10-01, University of Kent, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent at Canterbury, August 2001.
• Promotion and dissemination of good practice: Discipline networks. Sally Fincher. Technical Report 7-01, University of Kent, Computing Laboratory, July 2001.
• Towards a pattern vocabulary for dissemination techniques. Sally Fincher. Presented at the workshop "Putting it All Together: Pattern Languages for Interaction Design" at CHI'97, March 1997.