Biography
My name is Alex Lishinski, I earned my Ph.D in Educational Psychology and Educational Technology from Michigan State University. I work as a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville with a focus on Computer Science Education. My current focus is on motivational and affective factors that influence student outcomes in undergraduate introductory programming courses. I am also very interested in statistics and research methods generally, and statistical programming in R.
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Interests
- Computer Science Education
- Educational Psychology
- Quantitative Methods
Education
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PhD in Educational Psychology and Educational Technology, 2017
Michigan State University
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MA in Philosophy, 2013
Texas A&M University
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BA in Philosophy and German, 2010
Michigan State University
Recent Posts
ITICSE 2023
This paper, titled “Self-efficacy Feedback Loops and Learning Experiences in CS1”, ITiCSE ‘23: the 28th ACM Conference on on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. The conference took place from July 10-12 in Turku, Finland.
lavaanPlot Update
My R package lavaanPlot has seen some updates since the last time I posted about it, and is now on version 0.6.3.
Since last time I posted about it for version 0.
Self-evaluation Interventions: Impact on Self-efficacy and Performance in Introductory Programming
I’m very excited to say that my paper, called “Self-evaluation Interventions: Impact on Self-efficacy and Performance in Introductory Programming” has finally been published in ACM TOCE! This paper was a whole thing, and it took over 3 years to go from the initial version that I submitted to ICER in 2018, to the final version that is appearing now in ACM TOCE.
Cognitive, Affective, and Dispositional Components of Learning Programming
My dissertation My dissertation was called “Cognitive, Affective, and Dispositional Components of Learning Programming”, and as the title suggests, It is about an examination of constructs from these three overarching categories and how they affect novice programmers.