Brett A. Becker
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| 🏳️ Citizenship | Ireland, United States |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Drew University, Technological University of Dublin, National University of Ireland - University College Dublin |
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| Known for | Computer Science Education; Textbook Author |
| 🌐 Website | people |
Brett A. Becker is an American/Irish computer scientist and author, known for his work in computing education.
Research and academic work
Becker was elected Vice-Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) in 2022[1][2] and sits on the Steering Committee of the ACM/IEEE Computer Society/AAAI International Task Force for the revision of the CS 2013 Computer Science Curricula which is used by thousands of Computer Science Institutions globally.[3] He is Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Computing Education (ACM TOCE)[4] and a member of the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) Council.[5]
Becker is an Irish National Forum Teaching and Learning Research Fellow, the highest individual national distinction for teaching in higher education.[6] He is also the President of the All-Ireland Society for Higher Education (AISHE)[7] which runs conferences and publishes The All Ireland Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (AISHE-J), where he is also the Technical Editor.[8] He is the lead author on the first second-level (high school) textbook based on the new Irish Computer Science curriculum (the Leaving Certificate Computer Science).[9][10]
Awards and distinctions
- Best Position and Curricula Initiatives Paper, ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium (2023)[11]
- Best Computer Science Education Research Paper, Australasian Computing Education Conference (2022)[12]
- Best Computer Science Education Research Paper, ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium (2021)[13]
- Irish National Forum Teaching and Learning Research Fellow (2020)[6]
- Best Reviewed Paper Award, International Computing Education Research (ICER) conference (2020)[14]
- "Top 5 in 25 Award" for the top 5 working group reports of the first 25 years of ACM ITiCSE (2020)[15]
- Best Computer Science Education Research Paper, ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium (2019)[16]
- ACM "People of ACM European Chapters" (2019)[17]
Publications
Becker has published over 100 internationally peer-reviewed papers.[18][19][20][21][22][23]
References
- ↑ "ACM SIGCSE". sigcse.org. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
- ↑ "2022 ACM SIGCSE Election Results". www.acm.org. Retrieved 2022-09-24.
- ↑ Roach, Steven; Sahami, Mehran (March 2015). "CS2013: Computer Science Curricula 2013". Computer. 48 (3): 114–116. doi:10.1109/MC.2015.68. ISSN 1558-0814.
- ↑ "ACM TOCE". ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE). Retrieved 2019-12-14.
- ↑ "Member Networks | icedonline.net". icedonline.net. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Ireland's Inaugural Teaching and Learning Research Fellows Named". National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. 2020-06-09. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
- ↑ "Executive Committee". AISHE. 2017-04-06. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
- ↑ "AISHE-J Board | AISHE-J". 26 January 2016. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
- ↑ "Computer Science for Leaving Certificate - Golden Key Educational Publishing". Retrieved 2020-01-22.
- ↑ Reporter, LaoisToday (2020-01-29). "Laois lecturer releases new computer science textbook for Leaving Cert". Laois Today. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
- ↑ Doyle, Maureen; Stephenson, Ben; Dorn, Brian; Soh, Leen-Kiat; Battestilli, Lina (2023-03-02). Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1. Toronto ON Canada: ACM. doi:10.1145/3545945. ISBN 978-1-4503-9431-4. Search this book on
- ↑ Sheard, Judy; Denny, Paul, eds. (2022-02-14). Australasian Computing Education Conference. Virtual Event Australia: ACM. doi:10.1145/3511861. ISBN 978-1-4503-9643-1. Search this book on
- ↑ Mooney, Catherine; Becker, Brett A. (2021-05-10). "Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on computing students' sense of belonging". ACM Inroads. 12 (2): 38–45. doi:10.1145/3463408. hdl:10197/12319. ISSN 2153-2184. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ "Awards - ICER 2020". icer.acm.org. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
- ↑ "ITiCSE announces awards first 25 years". sigcse.org. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
- ↑ "SIGCSE 2019". sigcse2019.sigcse.org. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
- ↑ "People of ACM: Brett Becker". www.acm.org. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
- ↑ "Brett A. Becker". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ↑ "Brett A. Becker - Home". dl.acm.org. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
- ↑ ORCID. "Brett A. Becker (0000-0003-1446-647X)". orcid.org. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
- ↑ "Brett A. Becker - DBLP Computer Science Bibliography". Retrieved 2021-01-19.
- ↑ "Brett Becker's Publons profile". publons.com. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
- ↑ "B. Becker | Semantic Scholar". www.semanticscholar.org. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
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