ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER) 2025

The 21st ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research will take place from Sun 3 to Wed 6 August 2025 in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It will be a hybrid conference: you may participate physically or virtually through our conference platform. All virtual events will occur over Discord.

Research Papers: Call for Papers

Aims and Scope

The 21st annual ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER) aims to gather high-quality contributions to the Computing Education Research discipline. The “Research Papers” track invites submissions describing original research results related to any aspect of teaching and learning computing, from introductory through advanced material. Submissions are welcome from across the research methods used in Computing Education Research and related fields. Each contribution will be assessed based on:

• the appropriateness and soundness of its methods
• its relevance to teaching or learning computing, and
• the depth of its contribution to the community’s understanding of the question at hand.

Research areas of particular interest include:

• design-based research, learner-centered design, and evaluation of educational technology supporting computing knowledge or skills development,
• discipline based education research (DBER) about computing, computer science, and related disciplines,
• informal learning experiences related to programming and software development (all ages), ranging from after-school programs for children, to end-user development communities, to workplace training of computing professionals,
• learnability of programming languages and tools for learning programming and computing concepts,
• learning analytics and educational data mining in computing education contexts,
• learning sciences work in the computing content domain,
• measurement instrument development and validation (e.g., concept inventories, attitudes scales, etc) for use in computing disciplines,
• pedagogical environments fostering computational thinking,
• psychology of programming,
• rigorous replication of empirical work, relevant to computing education, to compare with or extend previous empirical research results,
• professional development for computing educators at all levels.

While this above list is non-exclusive, authors are also invited to consider the call for papers for the “Lightning Talks & Posters” and “Work-in-Progress” tracks if in doubt about the suitability of their work for this track.

Submission instructions will be made available soon.

By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.

Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.

All questions about this call should go to the ICER 2025 program committee chairs at pc-chairs@icer.acm.org.

Important Dates

All submission deadlines are “anywhere on Earth” (AoE, UTC-12).