ICER

We warmly welcome you to the twelfth annual International Computing Education Research conference (ICER 2016), sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education. This year ICER will be held in Melbourne, Australia, and will be located in the Monash University Law Chambers in the city centre of Melbourne.

The ICER conference has been steadily growing. This year there were a record number of research paper submissions with a total of 102 papers submitted and 26 papers accepted for an acceptance rate of 25%. The papers were double-blind reviewed by an international program committee. The review process was overseen by a meta-review team consisting of three conference co-chairs (Sheard, Dorn and Tenenberg) and the two associate chairs. Our paper authors represent eight different countries: Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, India, Netherlands, United Kingdom and USA.

Associated with ICER 2016 is a Doctoral Consortium with 18 doctoral students who are working on computing education research projects and a Work in Progress workshop where 9 participants will receive in-depth feedback on their proposals for computing education research projects.

The ICER program is organized around nine paper presentation sessions with a variety of computing education topics such as understanding how students code, identifying students at risk, assessment benchmarking, and programming tools and IDEs. We have continued ICER's well established single-track format with time allocated for audience discussion to each paper presentation. In addition, there will be 4 lightning talks with posters, 4 lightning talks, and 6 posters, with additional poster presentations from the Doctoral Consortium participants.

A highlight of the conference is our keynote speaker Associate Professor Richard Buckland from the University of New South Wales. Richard is an award winning computing educator with many innovations in online and face-to-face teaching. His keynote address Affective and Cognitive -- Designing Educational Experiences that Transform, will explore teaching and learning in the affective domain.