Assessment: How Shall we assess This?
Homepage: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/jec/assess/
People: Janet Carter, Ursula Fuller
Selected publications:

• How Shall We Assess This?. Janet Carter, John English, Kirsti Ala-Mutka, Martin Dick, William Fone, Ursula Fuller, and Judy Sheard. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 35(4):107-123, December 2003. (more details)

BlueJ: Integrated Java Teaching Environment
Homepage: http://www.bluej.org/
Support: Sun
People: Michael Kölling, David Barnes, Ian Utting
Teaching: CO320, CO520, CO523
Selected publications:

• Objects first with java - a practical introduction using bluej. David J. Barnes and Michael Kölling. Prentice Hall / Pearson Education, third edition, April 2006. (more details)
• The BlueJ system and its pedagogy. Michael Kolling, Bruce Quig, Andrew Patterson, and John Rosenberg. Journal of Computer Science Education, Special issue on Learning and Teaching Object Technology, 13(4):249-268, December 2003. (more details) download publication

DC: The Disciplinary Commons
Homepage: http://www.disciplinarycommons.org
People: Sally Fincher

EPCoS: Effective Projectwork in Computer Science
Homepage: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/national/EPCOS
People: Sally Fincher, Ian Utting

Gender: Gender Issues Within CS
People: Janet Carter
Selected publications:

• Participation Rates in CS: One International Issue or a Multiplicity of National Ones?. Janet Carter, Karen Fraser, Tony Jenkins, Catherine Lang, Stanislav Kurkovsky, and Paul Tymann. In Hazel White, editor, Proceedings of 10th Annual Conference of the subject centre for Information and Computer Sciences, pages 95-99, Canterbury, August 2009. HEA ICS, HEA ICS. (more details)
• Gender Differences in Programming?. Janet Carter and Tony Jenkins. In Proceedings of 7th annual ITiCSE conference, pages 188-192, Aarhus, June 2002. ACM. (more details)
• Arresting the Decline: how can we encourage female students back into Computer Science. Janet Carter and Tony Jenkins. In Proceedings of Higher Education Close Up 2 international research conference, Lancaster, July 2001. SRHE, Higher Education Development Centre. (more details)

Greenfoot: Greenfoot - The Java Object World
Homepage: http://www.greenfoot.org/
Support: Sun
People: Michael Kölling
Selected publications:

• greenfoot: Combining object visualisation with interaction. Poul Henriksen and Michael Kolling. In Companion to the 19th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications (OOPSLA), pages 73-82, Vancouver, BC, CANADA, November 2004. ACM. (more details) download publication

SharingPractice: Sharing Practice
Homepage: http://www.sharingpractice.ac.uk/homepage.html
People: Sally Fincher

TOPS: Teaching Over-Performing Students
Homepage: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/~jec/tops.html
Support: HEA-ICS £3,000
People: Janet Carter
Selected publications:

• Taxing our best students. Janet Carter, Nick Efford, Stefan Jamieson, Tony Jenkins, and Su White. ITALICS, 7(1):120-127, June 2008. (more details)
• Tops - Collaboration and Competition to Stretch our Most Able Programming Novices. Su White, Janet Carter, Stephan Jamieson, Nick Efford, and Tony Jenkins. In Proceedings of 37th Frontiers in education Conference, Milwaukee, WI, October 2007. ASEE/IEEE. (more details)
• The TOPS project - teaching our over-performing students. Janet Carter, Nick Efford, Stephan Jamieson, Tony Jenkins, and Su White. In Proceedings of the 8th Annual HE Academy - ICS conference, Southampton, August 2007. HEA ICS. (more details)