School of Computing

Publications by Prof Sally Fincher

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Articles
Tenenberg, J. and Fincher, S. (2023) 'Bridging the gap between the individual and the group: the education of attention in design', CoDesign. Taylor & Francis, pp. 36-50. doi: 10.1080/15710882.2022.2028846.
Fincher, S. (2015) 'What are we doing when we teach computing in schools?', Communications of the ACM. ACM, pp. 24-26. doi: 10.1145/2742693.
Fincher, S. and Knox, D. (2013) 'The Porous Classroom: Professional Practices in the Computing Curriculum', IEEE Computer. IEEE Computer Soc, pp. 44-51. doi: 10.1109/MC.2013.261.
Falconer, I., Finlay, J. and Fincher, S. (2011) 'Representing practice: practice models, patterns, bundles . ', Learning, Media and Technology, pp. 182-196. doi: 10.1080/17439884.2011.553620.
Fincher, S. and Utting, I. (2010) 'Machines for Thinking', ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE). ACM, pp. 182-196. doi: 10.1145/1868358.1868360.
Blackwell, A. and Fincher, S. (2010) 'PUX: Patterns of User Experience', Inteactions. ACM, pp. 182-196. doi: 10.1145/1699775.1699782.
Fincher, S. and Tenenberg, J. (2006) 'Using theory to inform capacity-building: Bootstrapping communities of practice in computer science education research', Journal of Engineering Education. American Society for Engineering Education, pp. 265-278. doi: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2006.tb00902.x.
Sanders, K., Fincher, S., Bouvier, D., Lewandowski, G., Morrison, B., Murphy, L., Petre, M., Richards, B., Tenenberg, J. and Thomas, L. (2005) 'A multi-institutional, multinational study of programming concepts using card sort data', Expert Systems. Blackwell, pp. 121-128. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0394.2005.00303.x.
Fincher, S. and Tenenberg, J. (2005) 'Making sense of card sorting data', Expert Systems. Blackwell, pp. 89-93. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0394.2005.00299.x.
Tenenberg, J., Fincher, S., Blaha, K., Bouvier, D., Chen, T.-Y., Chinn, D., Cooper, S., Eckerdal, A., Johnson, H., McCartney, R. and others. (2005) 'Students Designing Software: a Multi-National, Multi-Institutional Study', Informatics in Education. Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, pp. 143-162.
Fincher, S. (2003) 'Perspectives on HCI patterns: concepts and tools (introducing PLML)', Interfaces. BCS HCI Group, pp. 26-28. Available at: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2003/1755.
Clancy, M., Stasko, J., Guzdial, M., Fincher, S. and Dale, N. (2001) 'Models and Areas for CS Education Research', Computer Science Education, pp. 323-341. doi: 10.1145/364447.364753.
Borchers, J. O., Fincher, S., Griffiths, R., Pemberton, L. and Siemon, E. (2001) 'Usability Pattern Language: Creating A Community', AI & Society Journal of Human-Centred Systems and Machine Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Germany, pp. 377-385. doi: 10.1007/BF01206116.
Derrick, J. and Fincher, S. (2000) 'Teaching Communication Protocols', Computer Science Education. Swets and Zeitlinger, pp. 195-202. doi: 10.1076/0899-3408(200012)10:3;1-s;ft195.
Knox, D., Fincher, S., Dale, N., Adams, E., Goelman, D., Hightower, J., Loose, K. and Springsteel, F. (1999) 'The Peer Review Process of Teaching Materials', SIGCSE Bulletin. ACM, pp. 87-100. doi: 10.1145/349316.349548.
Fincher, S. (1999) 'Analysis of Design: An Exploration of Patterns and Pattern Languages for Pedagogy', Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, pp. 331-348.
Bayle, E., Bellamy, R., Casaday, G., Erickson, T., Fincher, S., Grinter, B., Gross, B., Lehder, D., Marmolin, H., Moore, B. and others. (1998) 'Putting It All Together: a Pattern Language for Interaction Design', SIGCHI Bulletin. ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction, pp. 17-24.
Book sections
Lancaster, T., Robins, A. and Fincher, S. (2019) 'Assessment and Plagiarism', in Fincher, S. and Robins, A. (eds) The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 414-444. doi: 10.1017/9781108654555.015.
Fincher, S., Ben-David Kolikant, Y. and Falkner, K. (2019) 'Teacher Learning and Professional Development', in Fincher, S. and Robins, A. (eds) The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 727-748. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108654555.026.
Fincher, S., Tenenberg, J., Dorn, B., Hundhausen, C., McCartney, R. and Murphy, L. (2019) 'Computing Education Research Today', in Fincher, S. A. and Robins, A. V. (eds) The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 40-55. doi: 10.1017/9781108654555.003.
Ko, A. J. and Fincher, S. (2019) 'A Study Design Process', in Fincher, S. and Robins, A. (eds) The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 81-101. doi: 10.1017/9781108654555.005.
Malmi, L., Utting, I. and Ko, A. J. (2019) 'Tools and Environments', in Fincher, S. A. and Robins, A. V. (eds) The Cambridge handbook of computing education research. Cambridge University Press, pp. 639-662. doi: 10.1017/9781108654555.022.
Dziallas, S. and Fincher, S. (2018) '"I told you this last time, right?": Re-visiting narratives of STEM education', in Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research. 14th International Computing Education Research (ICER) conference, New York, USA: ACM, pp. 223-231. doi: 10.1145/3230977.3230989.
Dziallas, S., Fincher, S., Johnson, C. G. and Utting, I. (2017) 'The Year in Computing Initiative', in 5th Annual Symposium of the United Kingdom & Ireland Engineering Education Research Network. Engineering Education Research Network Annual Symposium, Birmingham, UK: Aston University. Available at: http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/list-of-events/2017/november/engineering-education-research-network-symposium-2.
Dziallas, S., Fincher, S., Johnson, C. G. and Utting, I. (2017) 'A First Look at the Year in Computing', in Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. ITiCSE Conference, New York, USA: ACM, pp. 275-280. doi: 10.1145/3059009.3059049.
Dziallas, S. and Fincher, S. (2017) 'The History and Purpose of Computing Curricula (1960s to 2000s)', in Communities of Computing: Computer Science and Society in the ACM. Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool, pp. 91-110. doi: 10.1145/2973856.2973857.
Dziallas, S. and Fincher, S. (2014) 'Learning to Learn: The Co-Evolution of an Institution and its Students', in 2014 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) Proceedings. Frontiers in Education, IEEE, pp. 852-858. doi: 10.1109/FIE.2014.7044126.
Shinners-Kennedy, D. and Fincher, S. A. (2013) 'Identifying Threshold Concepts: From Dead End to a New Direction', in Proceedings of the ninth annual international ACM conference on International computing education research. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual International ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, New York, USA: ACM, pp. 9-18. doi: 10.1145/2493394.2493396.
Fincher, S. (2013) 'The Diarists' Audience', in Stanley, L. (ed.) Documents of Life Revisited: Narrative and Biographical Methodology for a 21st Century Critical Humanism. Ashgate, pp. 77-92.
Knox, D. and Fincher, S. (2013) 'Why does place matter?', in Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education. Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education, New York, USA: ACM, pp. 171-176. doi: 10.1145/2462476.2465595.
Fincher, S., Richards, B., Finlay, J., Sharp, H. and Falconer, I. (2012) 'Stories of Change: How Educators Change Their Practice', in 2012 Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings. Frontiers in Education, IEEE, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/FIE.2012.6462317.
Clear, T., Caxton, G., Thompson, S. and Fincher, S. (2011) 'Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education in Information Technology', in Coll, R. and Zegwaard, K. (eds) Integrated Handbook for Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education. World Associate of Cooperative Education, Inc, pp. 182-196. Available at: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2011/3178.
Fincher, S., Tenenberg, J. and Robins, A. (2011) 'Research design: necessary bricolage', in Proceedings of the seventh international workshop on Computing education research. Seventh International Conference on Computing Education Research (ICER 2011), New York, USA: ACM, pp. 27-32. doi: 10.1145/2016911.2016919.
Fincher, S. (2011) 'Useful Sharing', in Hay, I. (ed.) Inspiring Academics: Learning with the World's Great University Teachers. Open University Press, pp. 182-196. Available at: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2011/3096.
Sanders, K., Richards, B., Moström, J. E., Almstrum, V., Edwards, S., Fincher, S., Gunion, K., Hall, M., Hanks, B., Lonergan, S. and others. (2008) 'DCER: sharing empirical computer science education data', in ICER '08 Proceedings of the Fourth international Workshop on Computing Education Research. Proceedings of the fourth international workshop on Computing Education Research (ICER), New York, USA: ACM, pp. 137-148. doi: 10.1145/1404520.1404534.
Pears, A., Fincher, S., Adams, R. and Daniels, M. (2008) 'Stepping Stones: Capacity Building in Engineering Education', in 2008 38th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. 38th Annual Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, IEEE. doi: 10.1109/FIE.2008.4720485.
Fincher, S. and Tenenberg, J. (2007) 'Warren's Question', in ICER '07 Proceedings of the third international workshop on Computing education research. Proccedings of third International Computing Education Research Workshop (ICER), New York, USA: ACM, pp. 51-60. doi: 10.1145/1288580.1288588.
Simon, B., Lister, R. and Fincher, S. (2006) 'Multi-institutional computer science educational research: A review of recent studies of novice understanding', in Proceedings. Frontiers in Education. 36th Annual Conference. in Proceedings of the 36th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, IEEE, pp. 12-17. doi: 10.1109/FIE.2006.322291.
Fincher, S., Lister, R., Pears, A., Sheard, J., Tenenberg, J. and Young, A. (2006) 'Multi-institutional teaching communities in computing education', in Tolhurst, D. and Mann, S. (eds) ACE '06 Proceedings of the 8th Australasian Conference on Computing Education. Proceedings of the Eighth Australiasian Computing Education Confernece (ACE 2006), Darlinghurst, Australia: Australian Computer Society, Inc, pp. 7-10.
, Cutts, Q., Fincher, S., Haden, P., Robins, A., Sutton, K., Baker, B., Box, I., de Raadt, M., Hamer, J. and others. (2006) 'The ability to articulate strategy as a predictor of programming skill', in Tolhurst, D. and Mann, S. (eds). Proceedings of the Eighth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2006), Darlinghurst: Australian Computing Society Inc, pp. 181-188.
, Fincher, S., Robins, A., Baker, B., Box, I., Cutts, Q., de Raadt, M., Haden, P., Hamer, J., Hamilton, M. and others. (2006) 'Predictors of success in a first programming course', in Tolhurst, D. and Mann, S. (eds) ACE '06 Proceedings of the 8th Australasian Conference on Computing Education. Proceedings of the Eighth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2006), Darlinghurst: Australian Computing Society Inc, pp. 189-197.
Tolhurst, D., Baker, B., Hamer, J., Box, I., Cutts, Q., Petre, M., de Raadt, M., Robins, A., Fincher, S., and others. (2006) 'Do map drawing styles of novice programmers predict success in programming? A multi-national, multi-institutional study', in Tolhurst, D. and Mann, S. (eds) ACE '06 Proceedings of the 8th Australasian Conference on Computing Education. Proceedings of the Eighth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2006), Darlinghurst, Australia: Australian Computing Society Inc, pp. 213-222.
Fincher, S., Petre, M., Tenenberg, J., Blaha, K., Bouvier, D., Chen, T.-Y., Chinn, D., Cooper, S., Eckerdal, A. and Johnson, H. (2004) 'A multi-national, multi-institutional study of student-generated software', in Korhonen, A. and Malmi, L. (eds) Proceedings of the Fourth Finnish/Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education. Kolin Kolistelut - Koli Calling Proceedings, Helsinki University of Technology, pp. 20-28.
Fincher, S., Clear, T., Petrova, K., Hoskyn, K., Birch, R., Claxton, G. and Wieck, M. (2004) 'Cooperative education in information technology', in Coll, R. and Eames, C. (eds) International Handbook for Cooperative Education. WACE, pp. 111-123.
Daniels, M., Berglund, A., Pears, A. and Fincher, S. (2004) 'Five Myths of Assessment', in Lister, R. and Young, A. L. (eds) ACE '04 Proceedings of the Sixth Australasian Conference on Computing Education. Computing Education 2004 Sixth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2004), Darlinghurst, Australia: Australian Computer Society, Inc, pp. 57-61.
Fincher, S. (2002) 'Networking', in Baume, C., Martin, P., and Yorke, M. (eds) Managing Educational Development Projects: Effective Management for Maximum Impact. Kogan Page, pp. 37-45. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4615-1135-9_3.
Fincher, S. (2002) 'Patterns for HCI and Cognitive Dimensions: two halves of the same story?', in Kuljis, J., Baldwin, L., and Scoble, R. (eds) Fourteenth Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group, Uxbridge: Brunel University College, pp. 156-172.
Fincher, S. and Utting, I. (2002) 'Pedagogical patterns: their place in the genre', in Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education, New York, USA: ACM, pp. 199-202. doi: 10.1145/637610.544482.
Fincher, S. (2000) 'From transfer to tranformation: towards a framework for successful dissemination of engineering education', in 30th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Building on A Century of Progress in Engineering Education. Conference Proceedings. Frontiers in Education Conference, IEEE. doi: 10.1109/FIE.2000.896602.
Jones, R. E., Beckett, D. J. and Fincher, S. (2000) 'Meeting Diverse User Needs: Implementation of a Departmental Information Strategy', in Franklin, S. D. and Strenski, E. (eds) Building University Electronic Educational Environments. IFIP TC3 WG3.2/3.6 International Working Conference on Building University Electronic Educational Environments, Kluwer Academic, pp. 125-139. doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-35502-3_10.
Fincher, S. (1999) 'What are we doing when we teach programming?', in FIE'99 Frontiers in Education. 29th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Designing the Future of Science and Engineering Education. Conference Proceedings. 29th Annual Conference on Frontiers in Education '99 (FIE '99), IEEE. doi: 10.1109/FIE.1999.839268.
Daniels, M. and Fincher, S. (1999) 'Evaluating a Joint International Project in Disjunct Courses', in Daudt, J. and Rompelman, O. (eds) What have they learned? assessment of student learning in higher education : Proceedings of SEFI working group on curriculum development seminar. What have they learned? Assessment of Student Learning in Higher Education, Brussels, Belgium: SEFI, pp. 139-144.
Fincher, S. (1998) 'Computer Science: the discipline network and the Metanet', in McNair, S. (ed.) Developing Disciplines the experience of the Discipline Networks Programme 1995-98. Department for Education and Employment, pp. 13-19.
Fincher, S. and Petre, M. (1998) 'Project-based Learning Practices in Computer Science Education', in FIE '98. 28th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference: Moving from 'Teacher-Centered' to 'Learner-Centered' Education Conference Proceedings. 28th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference on Moving from Teacher-Centered to Learner-Centered Education, IEEE, pp. 1185-1191. doi: 10.1109/FIE.1998.738607.
Fincher, S. (1998) 'Learning from other disciplines: pedagogic models within computer science and from elsewhere', in Mulder, F. and van Weert, T. (eds) Informatics in Higher Education Views on informatics and non-informatics curricula. Chapman & Hall, pp. 231-234. doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-35166-7_24.
Petre, M. and Fincher, S. (1998) 'Using Other People's Experience of Project Work: Realising Fitness for Purpose', in Holcombe, M., Stratton, A., Fincher, S., and Griffiths, G. (eds) Projects in the Computing Curriculum. Springer-Verlag, pp. 19-30. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4471-1261-7_2.
Fincher, S. (1997) 'Effective Project Work in Computer Science: Project EPCOS', in Knudsen, M. and Vinther, T. (eds) International Conference on Project Work in University Studies. Project Work in University Studies, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, pp. 195-203.
Monographs
Fincher, S., Finlay, J. and Dziallas, S. (2017) Building a Graduate Employability Community in Computing: the GECCO Workshops. Council of Professors and Heads of Computing. Available at: https://employability.disciplinarycommons.org/.
Fincher, S. and Finlay, J. (2016) Computing Graduate Employability: Sharing Practice. Council of Professors and Heads of Computing. Available at: https://cphcuk.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/computinggraduateemployabilitysharingpractice.pdf.
Sahami, M., Roach, S., Cuadros-Vargas, E., Danyluk, A., Dodge, R., Fisher, K., Fincher, S., France, R., Grossman, D., Hawthorne, B. and others. (2013) Computer Science Curricula 2013(CS2013). ACM Press and IEEE Computer Society Press. doi: 10.1145/2534860.
Fincher, S., Finlay, J., Sharp, H., Falconer, I. and Richards, B. (2012) Change Stories. Available at: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2012/3207.
Fincher, S., Baker, B., Box, I., Cutts, Q., de Raadt, M., Haden, P., Hamer, J., Hamilton, M., Lister, R. and Petre, M. (2005) Programmed to succeed?: A multi-national, multi-institutional study of introductory programming courses. University of Kent.
Fincher, S., Petre, M., Tenenberg, J., Blaha, K. and Bouvier, D. (2004) Cause for alarm?: A multi-national, multi-institutional study of student-generated software designs. University of Kent.
Petre, M., Fincher, S. and Tenenberg, J. (2003) 'My Criterion is: Is it a Boolean?': A card-sort elicitation of students' knowledge of programming constructs. Kent University. Available at: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2003/1682.
Jadud, M. C. and Fincher, S. (2003) Naive tools for studying compilation histories. University of Kent. Available at: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2003/1588.
Carter, J., Tardivel, J., Fincher, S., Fuller, U., Johnson, C. G., Linington, J. and Utting, I. (2001) Portrait of 2000/01 Part I Assessments, Part 1: Statistical Analysis. UKC.
Fincher, S. (2001) Promotion and Dissemination of Good Practice: Discipline Networks.
Conference or workshop items
Dziallas, S., Fincher, S., Ellis, H. J. C., Postner, L. and Hislop, G. W. (2022) 'Adopting a New Practice: Open Source Experiences in the Classroom', in. 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), IEEE. doi: 10.1109/fie56618.2022.9962578.
Dziallas, S. and Fincher, S. (2019) 'Accountable Disciplinary Knowledge in Computing Education', in. 2019 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, New York, NY, USA: ACM, pp. 1-9. doi: 10.1145/3291279.3339403​.
Spangsberg, T. H., Fincher, S. and Dziallas, S. (2018) 'Non-Traditional Novices' Perceptions of Learning to Program: A Framework of Developing Mental Models', in. IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), IEEE. doi: 10.1109/FIE.2018.8659301.
Dziallas, S. and Fincher, S. (2016) 'Aspects of Graduateness in Computing Students' Narratives', in. ICER 2016, pp. 181-190. doi: 10.1145/2960310.2960317.
Fincher, S., Dziallas, S., Brandes, O., Kolikant, Y. and Shapiro, B. (2016) 'Negotiating Academic Communities: Narratives of Life-long Learners', in. 12th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS). Available at: https://www.isls.org/icls/2016/.
Fincher, S. and Dziallas, S. (2015) 'Academic Hunger', in. Society for Research into Higher Education Annual Conference. Available at: http://www.srhe.ac.uk/conference2015/.
Dziallas, S. and Fincher, S. (2015) 'The Evolution and Purpose of Computing Curricula (1960s to 2000s)', in. SHOT Annual Meeting.
Dziallas, S. and Fincher, S. (2015) 'Exploring Students' Conception of Learning through Narratives', in. Engineering Education Research Network Annual Symposium. Available at: http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/events/eer-annual-symposium/.
Shinners-Kennedy, D. and Fincher, S. (2015) 'Scaffolded autoethnography: a method for examining practice-to-research', in. 6th Research in Engineering Education Symposium. Available at: http://www.rees2015.org/.
Dziallas, S. and Fincher, S. (2015) 'ACM Curriculum Reports: A Pedagogic Perspective', in. International Computing Education Research. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2787622.2787714.
Fincher, S. and Dziallas, S. (2015) 'Then and Now: Past Experience Echoed in University Computing Teachers' Current Practice', in. Research in Engineering Education Symposium. Available at: http://www.rees2015.org/.
Fincher, S., Kölling, M., Utting, I., Brown, N. C. and Stevens, P. (2010) 'Repositories of teaching material and communities of use: nifty assignments and the greenroom', in. Proceedings of the Sixth international workshop on Computing education research, pp. 182-196. Available at: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2010/3061.
Fincher, S. and Tenenberg, J. (2010) 'The Scholarship of Cockfighting', in, pp. 182-196. Available at: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2010/3060.
Fincher, S. and Tenenberg, J. (2007) 'Re-shaping practices of academic development: The Disciplinary Commons', in.
Tenenberg, J. and Fincher, S. (2007) 'Opening the Door of the Computer Science Classroom: The Disciplinary Commons', in. Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE Symposium on Computer Science Education, United States: Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 514-518. doi: 10.1145/1227504.1227484.
Fincher, S., Barnes, D. J., Bibby, P., Bown, J., Bush, V., Campbell, P., Cutts, Q., Jamieson, S., Jenkins, T., Jones, M. D. and others. (2006) 'Some Good Ideas from the Disciplinary Commons', in. 7th Annual Conference of the Higher Education Academy for Information and Computer Sciences, pp. 153-158.
Cutts, Q., Barnes, D. J., Bibby, P., Bown, J., Bush, V., Campbell, P., Fincher, S., Jamieson, S., Jenkins, T., Kazakov, D. and others. (2006) 'Laboratory Exams in First Programming Courses', in. 7th Annual Conference of the Higher Education Academy for Information and Computer Sciences, pp. 224-229.
Tenenberg, J. and Fincher, S. (2006) 'Building and assessing capacity in Engineering Education Research: the Bootstrapping Model', in. 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition.
Fincher, S., Lister, R., Clear, T., Robins, A., Tenenberg, J. and Petre, M. (2005) 'Multi-institutional, multi-national studies in CSEd research: Some design considerations and trade-offs', in. Proceedings of the First International Computing Education Research Workshop, ICER'05, ACM, pp. 111-121.
de Raadt, M., Hamilton, M., Lister, R., Tutty, J., Baker, B., Box, I., Cutts, Q., Fincher, S., Hamer, J., Haden, P. and others. (2005) 'Approaches to learning in computer programming students and their effect on success', in. Annual International Conference of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia.
Fincher, S. and Adams, R. (2004) 'Developing engineering education research questions: What do they look like? How do I get one?', in. Frontiers in Education.
Almstrum, V., Fincher, S., McCauley, R. and Westbrook, S. (2004) 'Computer Science Education Research as a Scientific Endeavor', in. Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
Fincher, S., Petre, M., Tenenberg, J., Blaha, K., Bouvier, D., Chen, T.-Y., Chinn, D., Cooper, S., Eckerdal, A., Johnson, H. and others. (2004) 'A multi-national, multi-institutional study of student-generated software designs', in. 4th Finnish/Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education, pp. 1-8.
Haden, P., Fincher, S. and Petre, M. (2004) 'BRACE Yourself: CS Education Research Is Coming', in. Proceedings of 17th NACCQ conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, pp. 277-280.
Fincher, S. and Mander, K. C. (2001) 'Serendipity in the Engineering Curriculum', in. Proceedings of the ICEE 2001 conference.
Moses, L., Fincher, S. and Caristi, J. (2000) 'Teams Work (Panel Session)', in. Proceedings of the 31st SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, ACM New York, NY, USA, pp. 421-422. doi: 10.1145/331795.331906.
Fincher, S. and Utting, I. (1998) 'Entraining students in Professional Issues: challenging their structures of knowledge', in. 6th Improving Student Learning Symposium: Improving Student Learning Outcomes.
Fincher, S. and Petre, M. (1998) 'Beyond Anecdote Towards Real Transfer: Using Other Institutions' Experience of Project Work', 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, ACM, pp. 86-89. doi: 10.1145/290320.283038.
Barnes, D. J., Fincher, S. and Thompson, S. (1997) 'Introductory Problem Solving in Computer Science', in Daughton, G. and Magee, P. (eds). 5th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Computing, Centre for Teaching Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland, pp. 36-39.
Fincher, S. and Bateman, D. (1996) 'Supporting the Supervisors', in O'Connor, R. and Alexander, S. (eds). 4th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Computing: Providing Quality Computer Science Education, Centre for Teaching Computing, Dublin City University, pp. 227-230.
Bateman, D. and Fincher, S. (1996) 'A Comparative Evaluation of Internet Use for Discipline Networks', in Behrooz, A. (ed.). Knowledge Transfer '96, pp. 296-300.
Books
Fincher, S. (2012) Using Narrative Methodology. Canterbury: University of Kent at Canterbury.
Fincher, S. and Tenenberg, J. (2011) A Commons Leader's Vade Mecum. University of Kent Press, pp. 182-196. Available at: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2011/3137.
Fincher, S. and Barnes, D. J. (2006) Studying Programming. Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-0-230-20845-2.
Fincher, S., Markopoulos, P., Moore, D. and Ruddle, R. (2004) People and Computers XVIII: Design for Life. Springer-Verlag.
Fincher, S. and Petre, M. (2004) Computer Science Education Research. Taylor & Francis.
Fincher, S., Petre, M. and Clark, M. (2001) Computer Science Project Work: Principles and Pragmatics. Springer-Verlag.
Holcombe, M., Stratton, A., Fincher, S. and Griffiths, G. (1998) Projects in the Computing Curriculum. Springer-Verlag.
Others
Fincher, S. (1997) 'Towards a Pattern Vocabulary for Dissemination Techniques'. University of Kent.
Edited books
Fincher, S. (2019) The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research. Edited by S. A. Fincher and A. V. Robins. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108654555.
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